Introduction to Cryptography

Catalog description

The course covers basic cryptographic primitives, such as symmetric, public-key ciphers, digital signature schemes, and hash functions, and their mathematical underpinnings. Course helps students understand basic notions of security in a cryptographic sense: chosen plaintext and chosen ciphertext attacks, games, and reductions. Course also covers computational number theory relevant to cryptography. Consent of Instructor required. Taught with: CSCI 5225 .