InfoSec Courses

COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 482
INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY (3 Cr.)

Instructor : Dr. S. Srinivasan

Professor of CIS , Room 380
Phone : (502) 852 – 4790
E-mail : srini@louisville.edu

Prerequisite : CIS 360 and MATH 205 or EAC 101

Description : Basic concepts of cryptology, historical ciphers, modern symmetric ciphers such as DES, public key cryptography (RSA, elliptic curve cryptosystems), efficient hardware and software implementations of cryptographic primitives, copyright protection (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), requirements for implementation of cryptographic modules, data integrity and authentication, digital signature schemes, key exchange and key management, standard protocols for secure mail, electronic payments, security aspects of mobile communications, key escrow schemes, Smart cards, social implications of new technologies.

SYLLABUS

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STUDENT REPORTS

Student
Report Title

Allyson Mader

The Code Book by Simon Singh

Brandon Pollett

Quantum Cryptography

George Thompson

Navajo Code Talkers

ASSIGNMENTS

Due Date
Assignment/Report

September 7

Assignment 1

September 14

September 21

Assignment 2

October 5

Assignment 3

October 19
October 26
November 9
November 9
November 16