COSC-545 Cryptography

Faculty:

Velauthapillai, Mahendran

Classical cryptography, Shannon's Theory*,* Pseudorandom generators, one-way functions and permutations, Number theory and computational hardness, factoring, Block Ciphers and Advanced Encryption Standard, Differential Cryptanalysis, RSA, Discrete-log, Key Exchange Public-key Encryption, Message Authentication Codes, Digital Signatures, Hash Functions Zero knowledge proofs, Identification Protocols, Secret Sharing Schemes, Secure Multi-party Computation, and higher level protocols.

Recommended: Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, and Algorithms.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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• 2004-2005 Fall and Spring
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• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring
• 2013-2014 Fall and Spring

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