ELG5373 (Registered at Carleton University as EACJ5105)

Data Encryption

Secure communications: encryption and decryption. Entropy, equivocation and unicity distance. Cryptanalysis and computational complexity. Substitution, transposition and product ciphers. Data Encryption Standard (DES): block and stream cipher modes. Modular arithmetic. Public key cryptosystems: RSA, knapsack. Factorization methods. Elliptic curve cryptography. Authentication methods and cryptographic protocols.

Prerequisites: solid familiarity with basic concepts in applied cryptography.

In particular, it is strongly recommended that the following course (or its equivalent) should be taken, or at least audited, prior to this course in order to obtain the relevant background:

· CSI4108 or COMP4109 (cryptography)