CMSC656

Introduction to Cryptography

Introduction to modern cryptography. Topics include symmetric-key encryption, hash functions, message-authentication codes, block-cipher design, theoretical foundations, number theory, public-key encryption, and digital signatures.

Spring 2026

Daniel Apon

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Spring 2025

Jonathan Katz

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Daniel Apon

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.84 between 34 students*

A-: 14.71%

A: 29.41%

A+: 29.41%

B-: 2.94%

B: 2.94%

B+: 2.94%

other: 17.65%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.