6.857: Computer and Network Security (Spring 2021)

Course Information

Basic Information

Lectures are on Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00am-12:30pm, via Zoom. Recitations are on Fridays 11:00am-12:00pm via Zoom.

Prerequisites: 6.033 and 6.042; 6.006 (or 6.046) is also recommended. See course information handout for details.

Office Hours

Andres Fabrega, TBD
Billy Woltz, TBD
Deep Gupta, TBD

Textbooks

There are no required textbooks. The following few might be useful, though:

• Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell. Introduction to Modern Cryptography 2ed. CRC Press, 2014. Author's website (including errata). $101 on Amazon.
• Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, and Tadayoshi Kohno. Cryptography Engineering. Wiley, 2010. Author's website. $35 on Amazon.
• Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl. Understanding Cryptography. Springer, 2010. Authors' Website. $35 on Amazon. This is available as an e-book from MIT libraries.
• Nigel Smart. Cryptography Made Simple. Springer, 2016. Springer e-book. The PDF of the text book is provided for free for MIT students.
• Jean-Philippe Aumasson. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption. No Starch Press, 2017. $33 on Amazon.

These books are on reserve at the MIT Libraries. Again, you're not required to purchase them.

Detailed Information

A course information handout and a syllabus will be available on the first day of class.