Submodule #

Title

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Description

Prerequisite

*Referenced module

1

Cryptographic Overview1

Cryp1

Introduction to cryptography and cryptanalysis; study of simple encryption involving substitution and transposition, including monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitutions, Vigenere tableau, and the  Kasiski method.

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2

Cryptography Overview 2 

Cryp2

 Further study of cryptography and cryptanalysis, including index of coincidence, columnar transpositions, fractionated Morse; review of fundamental concepts such as confusion, diffusion, stream ciphers, block ciphers.

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3

Symmetric Encryption

Cryp3

Introduction to hard (NP-complete) problems; review of modular arithmetic; symmetric versus asymmetric algorithms; the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Double-DES, Triple-DES; key escrow and the Clipper proposal; AES.

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4

 Asymmetric Encryption and Hashing

Cryp4

Asymmetric (public-key)algorithms:  Merkle-Hellman Knapsacks, RSA algorithm, El Gamal algorithm; Secure Hash Algorithm(SHA).

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5

Cryptographic Protocols 1

Cryp5

Key distribution, digital certificates, digital signatures, mental poker.

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6

Cryptographic Protocols 2

Cryp6

E-voting protocols, oblivious transfer, digital contract signing, certified mail.

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Example Applications

Cryp7

 Examples of the use of encryption in database applications, secure programming, operating systems and commercial products

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