Cryptology

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The objective of this course is to provide a foundation of cryptography in an applied manner so that students can grasp its importance in relation to the rest of information security. The course covers principles of number theory and cryptographic algorithms and cryptanalysis. Topics include: steganography, block and stream ciphers, secret key encryption (DES, AES, RC-n), primes, random numbers, factoring, and discrete logarithms; Public key encryption (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic curve cryptography); Key management, hash functions, digital signatures, certificates and authentication protocols. Cryptanalytic methods (known, chosen plaintext etc.) for secret and public key schemes (linear and differential cryptanalysis, Pollard's rho method, number field sieve, etc.) Recommended to take Math-330.