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CSEC 721 - Modern Cryptography


Credits 3

Explores core principles of modern cryptography. Focus on private-key cryptography, extensive treatment of private-key encryption, message authentication codes, and hash functions, including: RC4, DES, and AES. Investigation of provable constructions of stream ciphers and block ciphers from lower-level primitives, public-key cryptography, basic number theory, and major standardized public-key encryption schemes.

Prerequisites
Admission into any graduate cybersecurity program or by consent of the Cybersecurity Director