FTS-100: Secrets, Secret Codes, and Privacy
Fall 2006

Reading and class schedule	Project	FTS-100  homepage
Homework	Short writing assignments	Course description
Homework guidelines	Criteria for grading writing	kaiser@gustavus.edu

Reading  and homework assignments, Sept. 8- Oct. 22
This page was last modified on 10/25/6

Date:	Preparation:	Topic:	Hand in:
9/7		Introductions, syllabus, writing handbook
9/8	Singh, chapter 1, Barr, chapter 1	Overview of  cryptography Cryptography timeline	writing  #0
9/11		Writing/discussion -Secrecy, cryptography and privacy
9/12	Barr, section 2.1	Shift ciphers
9/14		Cryptanalysis of shift ciphers decipher this	writing #1
9/15		Writing/discussion - honor code
9/18	Barr, section 2.2	Modular arithmetic
9/19		Decimation ciphers, Affine ciphers	reading journal
9/21		Breaking affine ciphers decipher this
9/22		Writing paragraphs, peer review	writing #2
9/25	Barr, section 2.4	Transposition ciphers	HW: sections 2.1, 2.2
9/26	Barr, section 2.3
9/28		Writing/discussion - making an argument	reading journal
9/29	Barr, section 2.5, Singh, chapter 2 (up to Mr Babbage...)	Polyalphabetic ciphers, Vigenere
10/2	Singh, chapter 2 (up to From Agony Columns...)	Cracking Vigenere
10/3		No class, Nobel
10/5	Barr, section 2.6	Probability	HW:sections 2.3,2.4
10/6		cont.	writing #3
10/9	Barr, section 2.7 Singh, chapter 2 (up to From  Agony Columns...) Singh, chapter 3, the section on The Holy Grail of Cryptography	Friedman and Kasiski tests
10/10		International Education	reading journal
10/12		Cracking Vigenere decipher this
10/13		cont.	HW: sections 2.5, 2.6
10/16		review
10/17		discsussion of privacy books	reading journal
10/19		Test #1
10/20		no class	writing 4 due 10/27
		assignments for second half