CS 459/698 - Privacy, Cryptography, Network and Data Security - Fall 2025

Schedule & Reading List

- Lecture slides and optional readings will be released shortly before each corresponding lecture.
Introduction
Lecture 1 - Logistics and Introduction to the course (Sep 4) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lec. 1 slides (draft)
Lecture 2 - Cryptography Basics (Sep 9th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Data Protected at Rest
Lecture 3 - Public Key Cryptography (Sep 11) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 released
Lecture 4 - Integrity (Sep 16th) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 5 - Discrete Logarithm and Diffie-Hellman (Sep 18) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Data Protected in Transit
Lecture 6 - Network Security Primer (Sep 23) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 7 - Authentication 101 (Sep 25) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 8 - Authentication Protocols (Sep 30) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 1 due
Lecture 9 - Security Through the Layers (Oct 2) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 2 released
Lecture 10 - Secure Messaging (Oct 7) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 11 - Network Anonymity (Oct 9) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 12 - Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Oct 21) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 13 - Network Steganography and Information Hiding (Oct 23) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 14 - Blockchain (Oct 28) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 15 - Malicious Software (Oct 30) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Midterm (Nov 4) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Midterm in class
Data Protected During Computation
Lecture 16 - Inference Attacks (Nov 6) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 2 due
Lecture 17 - Syntatic Notions of Privacy (Nov 11) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 released
Lecture 18 - Differential Privacy (Nov 13) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 19 - Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (Nov 18) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 20 - Adversarial Machine Learning (Nov 20) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 21 - Multi-party Computation (Nov 25) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Lecture 22 - Homomorphic Encryption (Nov 27) Optional Readings Lecture Slides
Assignment 3 due
Bonus: TBD (Dec 2) Optional Readings Lecture Slides