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2009-2010 University Catalog

TCOM 556 - Applied Cryptography

Credits: 1.5
Broad overview of cryptographic algorithms and mechanisms, and application in today’s communication networks. Discusses modern cryptographic techniques such as public key cryptography, digital signatures, secret sharing, key management, key escrow, public key certificates, and public key infrastructure. Covers cryptography on Internet including secure electronic mail, secure WWW, and electronic commerce. Compares, analyzes software implementations of cryptographic algorithms.

Prerequisites
TCOM 500 and 548.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week
1.5
Hours of Lab or Studio per week
0