Applied Cryptography

Catalog description

This course presents techniques in cryptography with analysis of its historical and societal consequences and an emphasis on meeting the needs of the information technology field. Topics include elementary combinatorics and number theory such as modular arithmetic and prime numbers, classical ciphers and accompanying attacks, and rotary machines as well as modern encryption schemes including public channel cryptography, secret-key ciphers, hash functions, side-channel attacks and post-quantum cryptography.