Math 65S: Cryptography and Society

Instructor: Joshua Holden
Office: PHY 219B
Office Phone: 660-6972
E-mail: holden@math.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden
Tentative Office Hours: Monday 10:30-11:20 and also by appointment.

Textbooks and Course Web Page

• The textbooks are: Privacy on the Line, Diffie and Landau; Cryptology, Beutelspacher; A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory , Silverman (A short list of errata from this text can be found at
  <http://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/frintdir/frinterrata.html> ); and Web Security & Commerce, Garfinkel and Spafford.
• The course web page is at <http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden/Math31L> .

Course Requirements

• Homework will be assigned on a weekly basis, and will be due on Wednesday. Some of the assignments will be worksheets or mathematical projects, while some of them will be short papers. The homework will count for 20% of your final grade.
• I would like you to keep a reading journal of current articles related to cryptography. Every Friday you should turn in a paragraph summary of an article related to cryptography published in a newspaper or newsmagazine during the previous month. (I encourage you to turn these in by e-mail.) I would like a bibliographic citation of the article and a short summary in your own words. Let me know if you have any questions. This will count for 10% of your final grade.
• There will be a term paper due in this class, with both a first draft and a final draft to be handed in. More information will be provided as the time comes. The term paper will count for 20% of your final grade.
• There will be a midterm exam given in class, which will count for 20% of your final grade. The final exam for the course will probably be a take-home exam, and will be cumulative. It will count for 25% of your final grade.
• The remaining 5% of your final grade will be based on classroom participation. In addition to informal discussion, there may also be opportunities for formal presentations.
• In addition to the other class requirements, I would like everyone to have e-mail and web access, and check them regularly. If this is a problem with anyone, please see me.

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