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Fall 2025 Lecture Departmental CreditUpper DivisionData from last updated 12/30/2025
Fall 2025
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(CSCI 55500) Concepts and principles of cryptography and data security. Cryptography (secret codes): principles of secrecy systems; classical cryptographic systems, including Vigenere and Vernam ciphers; the Data Encryption Standard (DES); public-key encryption; privacy-enhanced email; digital signatures. Proprietary software protection; information theory and number theory; complexity bounds on encryption; key escrow; traffic analysis; attacks against encryption; basic legal issues; e-commerce; and the role of protocols.
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