APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to the basic theory and practice of cryptographic techniques used in modern information security systems. Cryptography provides important tools for ensuring the privacy, authenticity, confidentiality, and integrity of data involved in modern information systems. This course examines the progress from historical symmetric encryption standards and protocols to the modern public key encryption processes. Basic concepts of ciphers, blocks, hashes, MACs, and key rotation strategies are discussed. Different implementation approaches and their performance impacts are presented, along with potential attack strategies and their efficacy. Prerequisites: COMP2350 and COMP2500 (4 credits) summer