Course detail
Cryptography
FEKT-MKRIAcad. year: 2013/2014
Security, security policy, security enforcement functions, security mechanisms, criteria for system security assessment. Mathematical foundations of cryptology. Substitution and transposition ciphers. Secret key encryption, AES data encryption standard, public key encryption, RSA system. Cryptographic keys and their management. Digital signatures, basic cryptographic protocols and their building blocks. Special algorithms for protocols, identification schemes. Security of data in computer networks. Internet and security, privacy protection. E-commerce security, application of cryptography in electronic publishing, legislative and ethical protection of data.
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Up to 30 points are given for work in laboratory.
Up to 70 points are given for the final examination.
Course curriculum
- Modular Arithmetic.
- Symmetric Cryptography, Stream Ciphers.
- Symmetric Cryptography, Block Ciphers, DES, AES,...
- Public-Key Cryptography, RSA, D-H,...
- Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems.
- Hash Functions.
- Digital Signatures.
- PKI.
- Quantum Key Distribution.
- Side Channel Analysis.
- E-banking.
- Security architecture for RM-OSI.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
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Mathematical foundations of cryptology
Cryptographic algorithm types and modes
Secret key encryption, DES data encryption standard
Public key encryption, RSA system
Cryptographic keys and their management
Digital signatures, one-way hash functions
Basic cryptographic protocols and its building blocks
Special algorithms for protocols, identification schemes
Criteria for system security assessment, security implementation principles
Security of data in computer networks
E-commerce security, application of cryptography in electronic publishing
Legislative and ethical protection of data
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Foundations of cryptology, cryptographic algorithm types and modes, digital signatures, basic cryptographic protocols and their building blocks, security of data in computer networks, Internet security.