Cryptography

Cryptography
(supplementary course materials)

Text: ``Cryptography: Theory and Practice'' by Douglas R. Stinson, Third Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 2006. ISBN 1-58488-508-4
Doug Stinson maintains an errata list for this book.

Instructor: Petr Lisonek (plisonek at sfu.ca)

Maple worksheets

tutorial for beginners
tools for Chapter 1 (modular arithmetic, string functions, index of coincidence)
elliptic curves cryptography (section 6.5)

Supplementary reading

``Handbook of Applied Cryptography'' by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone.
All chapters are available for free download at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/.
MD5 collisions and digital signatures

Data files

ciphertext from Example 1.12, page 34 (to reproduce Table 1.4, page 35)
ciphertext for Exercise 1.21 part (a)
ciphertext for Exercise 1.21 part (b)
ciphertext for Exercise 1.21 part (c)
ciphertext for Exercise 1.21 part (d)
ciphertext for Exercise 5.12
ciphertext for Exercise 6.9

Cryptography (supplementary course materials)

Maple worksheets

Supplementary reading

Data files

Cryptography
(supplementary course materials)