Unit F: Security and Privacy

Lecture notes

• There are no notes for class F2: Security & Privacy, since this class was a group discussion. Instead we have:
  • A comic strip;
  • An article on security (you will have to regsiter at this site to get the article); and
  • The EFF guide to privacy

• Notes for class F3: Encryption
  • 1 slide per page, PDF.
  • 4 slides per page, PDF.

  Here's a more detailed description of the RSA algorithm, though the Wikipedia entry is pretty good also.

Lab exercises

• Exercises for class F4

Reading

Case study: Privacy in Medical Records

• This article and
• This article

Assessment

Other material

• A list of encryption algorithms;
• The DES Data Encryption Standard; and
• Some simulators of the Enigma encryption machine.