CSIS 5857: Encoding and Encryption

• Message digests (goals and preimage/collision attacks)
• Hash algorithms (general ideas and concepts)
• Message Authentication Codes (purpose and algorithms)
• Digital signatures (goals, algorithms, and attacks)
• Authentication (replay attacks, passwords, challenge-response)
• Secure programming
• Symmetric key distribution
• Public key distribution (certificates, public key infrastructure)
• SSL for web security (basic concepts)
• Database security (basic structure, reciepts, key migration)
• Wireless security (basic concepts)

Syllabus Grading Policy Lecture Notes and Podcasts Assignments: Assignment 1: History and Background Assignment 2: AES Assignment 3: Public key encryption Research Presentation and topics already reserved