Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security - COMP3441


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Contact: Buckland,Richard James
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP2011 or equivalent, MATH1081 or MATH1090, either 70 in COMP3331 or 18uc of courses at DN level.
	Offered: Session Two
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Topics chosen from: intrusion detection, prevention, and response, ciphers and cryptanalysis, private key and public key systems, secure hash functions, cryptographic protocols, protocol analysis, digital signatures, public key infrastructures, authentication, key agreement, authorization, timestamping, trust management, social and legal issues, Java security model, digital cash, payment protocols, digital rights management, zero knowledge protocols, complexity theoretic foundations, quantum cryptography.

Assumed Knowledge: MATH1081 Disrete Mathematics.