CSC 609/595: Cryptography and Data Security
Instructor: Burton Rosenberg
Office: Ungar 523
Prerequisites: CSC 517 or MTH 517, 
        (or equivalent programming and mathematics background)
Credits: 3

Introduction to modern and classical cryptography. Topics include symmetric encryption, encryption modes, public key cryptography, authentication, signatures, key distribution, information theory, complexity classes for cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols.

Text books:

• Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Wade Trappe, Lawrence C. Washington Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-061814-4
• Dominic Welsh, Codes and Cryptography. Claredon Press, 1988. www.amazon.com

Homeworks:

Several assignments either programming or theorem proving. A final paper surveying the literature of a cryptography related issue.