2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CSCI 6634 - Cryptography and Data Security


Prerequisite: CSCI 6610 .  A survey of cryptographic concepts and algorithms and their application to data security. Techniques studied include private key cryptosystems, public key cryptosystems, and hash functions. Commonly used algorithms will also be studied, including DES, 3DES, IDEA, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, MD5, SHA, and DSS. Other algroithms examined will be those used to provide confidentiality, message authentication, key exchange, and digital signatures in applications such as client-server authentication, email security, and web security. 3 credits.