MAS3214/8214 --- Cryptography
Welcome to the official MAS3214/8214 Cryptography webpage which gives you access to information, homework exercises, and so on. There is also a webpage for MAS3214/8214 Number Theory.
News

There is an extra lecture Friday 4 May at 9am.

The lecture Friday 4 May at 4pm has been cancelled.

Overview

Lectures take place in the Herschel Building Tuesday 5-6 in HERB.G.LT3 (Lecture Theatre 3) and Friday 4-5 in HERB.G.LT1 (Lecture Theatre 1).

Tutorials/drop in sessions take place Friday 9-10 in PERB.G.05 (Percy Building Lecture Room G.05).

Office hours

Office hours are Thursday 1-2 and Friday 10-11. The lecturer is Peter Jorgensen who can be found in room HERB.3.27.

Last year's exam

For revision, here is last year's exam. During Cryptography revision, we will look at questions A3, A4, B7, and B8.

[ MAS3214 June 2011 with solutions ]
Homework

[ Homework Exercises and Tutorial Questions I ]
[ Answers to Homework Exercises I ]
[ Homework Exercises and Tutorial Questions II ]
[ Answers to Homework Exercises II ]
[ Homework Exercises and Tutorial Questions III ]
[ Answers to Homework Exercises III ]
[ Homework Exercises and Tutorial Questions IV ]
[ Answers to Homework Exercises IV ]
[ Tutorial Questions V ]
[ Answers to Tutorial Questions V ]

The answers to Homework Exercises IV have been published. Tutorial Questions V have been published. There are no Homework Exercises V.

Excel sheets etc.

[ Caesar cipher decryption ] shown in the lecture 31 January.
[ Frequency analysis of permutation cipher ] and [ notes I produced during the lecture ] shown in the morning lecture 3 February.
[ Frequency analysis of "A Void" ] also shown in the morning lecture 3 February.
[ Frequency analysis of Vigenere cipher, key length 3 ] and [ decryption of Vigenere cipher, key length 3 ] shown in the afternoon lecture 3 February.
Handouts

[ Handout Week 1 ]
[ Handout Week 2 ]
[ Handout Week 3 ]
[ Handout Week 4 ]
[ Handout Week 5 ]
[ Handout Week 6 ]
[ Handout Week 7 ]
[ Handout Week 8 ]
[ Handout Week 9 ]
[ Handout Week 10 ]
[ Handout Week 11 ]
[ Handout Week 12 ]

The twelvth and final weekly handout has appeared. All handouts will remain available on this webpage.

This page was last updated 11 May 2012.