Outline for November 17, 2006

Reading: §9.4, 10.1–10.2

  1. Greetings and felicitations!
    1. Puzzle of the day
  2. Cryptographic Checksums
    1. Function y = h(x): easy to compute y given x; computationally infeasible to compute x given y
    2. Variant: given x and y, computationally infeasible to find a second x′ such that y = h(x′)
    3. Keyed vs. keyless
  3. Key Exchange
    1. Needham-Schroeder and Kerberos

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