Applied Cryptography. ((3 Credits))

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Prerequisite(s): CS 2300 and ( CYBR 2700 or CS 2900 ) and University Advanced Standing Investigates advanced topics in cryptography. Provides an overview of the necessary background in algebra and number theory, private- and public-key cryptosystems, and basic signature schemes. Explores relevant number theory, basic Galois fields as applied to cryptography, the history of primality algorithms and the polynomial-time test of primality, discrete logarithm-based cryptosystems including those based on elliptic-curves and interactive protocols including the role of zero-knowledge proofs in the authentication.