COMS W4261
INTRO TO CRYPTOGRAPHY
Columbia University in the City of New York · UGRD · Fall 2026
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Recommended: COMS W3261 or CSOR W4231 . An introduction to modern cryptography, focusing on the complexity-theoretic foundations of secure computation and communication in adversarial environments; a rigorous approach, based on precise definitions and provably secure protocols. Topics include private and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, authentication, pseudorandom generators and functions, one-way functions, trapdoor functions, number theory and computational hardness, identification and zero knowledge protocols
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