CSC 364 - Introduction to Cryptography

Formalizing security, hash functions, symmetric and public-key encryptions are some of the main topics of this course. Early ciphers like the Caesar shift and the Vigenère cipher and modern techniques like RSA, Diffie-Hellman protocol and their theoretical foundations, practical applications and the vulnerabilities of each encryption system will be discussed.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite Courses: CSC 133 and CSC 231 with a grade of C or higher or CYBR 251 with a grade of C or higher.
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.

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