Syllabus

Introductory material to modern cryptography and related areas but covered at a graduate level, with mathematical rigor. The course will run 6 1/2 weeks for the 13 chapters of Welsh's book. All exercises are assigned. The student will select and solve chapter problems according to the student's interest.

Course runs June 16 until July 30. We will correspond using the university blackboard system. This course is limited to the motivated student who could profit from a self-study arrangement. Students are encouraged to collaborate on study of the text. I have an active interest in close study of this text and will be available by blackboard and email. Students enrolled who have not spoken with me, must do so immediately.

Textbook

• Codes and Cryptography, Dominic Welsh

Other readings

• Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Wade Trappe, Lawrence Washington.
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone, CRC Press 1996.
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