Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security - COMP3441


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3441
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: Completion of at least 48uc and 65 WAM.
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

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.