CST* 287 Cryptography Fundamentals

Credits: 3

This course investigates cryptographic concepts and algorithms and their application to data security. Techniques include private key cryptography, and hashing functions. Commonly used algorithms include: DES, 3DES, IDEA, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, MD5, SHA, and DSS. Other algorithms that provide confidentiality, message authentication, key exchange, and digital signatures in applications such as client-server authentication, email security and web security will also be reviewed.
Prerequisite: CST* 275 , Information Security.