CECS 579 - Information Security

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Computer Engineering MS, Computer ScienceMS, and Engineering MS students only.
Course Description: Symmetric cryptosystems, stream ciphers, pseudorandom functions, message authentication codes (MACs), collision resistant hash functions, number theory and cryptographic hardness assumptions, public-key encryption (El- Gamaland RSA), digital signature schemes.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hours, Laboratory 3 hours).