General Information

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This course will discuss basic building blocks of modern cryptography. Tentative topics include encryption, data integrity, authentication and identification, digital signatures, elementary number theory, randomness and pseudo-randomness, cryptographic protocols, and real world security systems.


Administrative Information


Grading


Based on final exam (70-80%) and homework assignments (30-20%).
Homework submission is in pairs. There will be a total of 3-4 problem sets.
The homework portion of the grade is determined by the the weighted average of all assignments.


Recommended Prerequisites

  • Linear Algebra
  • Probability
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Models
  • and most importantly, "mathematical maturity".

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