CS 459
Privacy, Cryptography, Network and Data Security
Winter 2025
Topics
- Cryptographic foundations
- Symmetric and public-key encryption
- Integrity and authentication
- Network security
- PKI, TLS and VPNs
- Anonymous communication and traffic analysis
- Covert channels
- Inference attacks
- Anonymization and differential privacy
- Private machine learning
- Homomorphic encryption and multiparty computation
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_website ↗Winter 2025
- No required textbook; the schedule labels its readings optional.