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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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-problems 3 hours)