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

CSC 5155 - Cryptography I

Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to modern cryptography. Topics will include a rigorous treatment of fundamental primitives including: theoretical and applied aspects of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography with associated security models, message authentication codes, stream ciphers, cryptographic hashing, digital signatures, and various advanced primitives.  Necessary mathematics will be introduced as needed, though a strong background in mathematics is expected.
Corequisite(s): CSC 2710