Cryptography for Cybersecurity

Catalog description

This course focuses on both mathematical foundations and practical applications of cryptography. The course discusses asymmetric and symmetric cryptography, Kerchkoff’s Principle, chosen and known plaintext attacks, public key infrastructure, authentication protocols. The course includes a close examination of various cryptosystems including the RSA, DES, AES, Elliptic Curve, and SHA family cryptosystems. Topics include a brief history of cryptography, ciphers, digital signatures, hash functions, message authentication codes, secure e-commerce, and digital cash.