Applied Cryptography

Catalog description

Classical and modern encryption methods, including public-key cryptosystems; elementary number theory; primality testing and some factorization techniques; hash functions; digital signature schemes; introduction to (and countermeasures for) number-theoretic and algebraic cryptanalysis; implementation errors; discrete logarithms; key-exchange algorithms; elliptic curves; one-time pads; the Advanced Encyryption Standard (AES); data privacy and cybersecurity. Prerequisite: take MATH (180 or MATH 270) & CS 145