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Cryptography and Information Security

Classical cryptology, entropy. Stream and block ciphers. Public-key versus symmetric cryptography, one-way and trap-door functions. Primality and factorization, DLP, Diffie-Hellman, RSA and ElGamal cryptosystems. Issues of computer and network security. Secure protocols, identification, authentication, digital signatures, secret sharing schemes.

Course Overview

Overall Proficiency Level
2 - Intermediate
Course Catalog Number
CIS 4362
Course Prerequisites

MAS 2103 and MAD 2502

Training Purpose
Functional Development
Skill Development
Specific Audience
All
Delivery Method
Online, Instructor-Led
National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led

Learning Objectives

  1. Define the security of fundamental cryptographic primitives and systems.
  2. Analyze security of symmetric and public key schemes, hash functions, message authentication codes and cryptographic protocols.
  3. Define and apply generic cryptanalysis methods including brute force, frequency analysis, meet-in-the-middle.
  4. Examine symmetric key encryption functions: Classical ciphers, stream ciphers, block ciphers.
  5. Identify applications and real-life deployment of cryptographic constructions.
  6. Develop software skills for implementing cryptographic algorithms and for analyzing their security.
  7. State basic probabilistic and statistical notions and apply this knowledge in cryptanalysis.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

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