CSc 85030: TOPICS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER SECURITY

Instructor: Prof. Michael Anshel

Fridays: 4:15 - 6:15PM

3 cr., Rm. TBA

Open to Computer Science, Math and Physics and Engineering majors only; others may register only with instructor's express permission. Professor Michael Anshel

We adopt an historical approach to the foundations of computer security and cryptography.

Topics include:

1. Overview of Cryptography before Computers
2. The Emergence of Cipher Machines: Enigma and the Signal Intelligence Services
3. The Fusion of Computers,Communications and Cryptography: Block and Stream Ciphers
4. Public-Key Cryptography- its Uses and Abuses
5. The Web and the Globalization of Computer Security
6. Computer Security and Cryptography in an Age of Terror
7. Wireless Technolgies, New Possibilities, New Threats: The Case of RFID
8. The Search for Secure Cryptographic Primitives: Hash Functions
9. Quantum Computers and Post-Quantum Cryptography
10. Privacy On the Line

Text: Alan G Konhein, Computer Security and Cryptography John Wiley & Sons (2007)

References include:
Neal Koblitz and Alfred J Menezes, A Survey of Public-Key Cryptosystems
SIAM Review Volume 46, No 4 (December 2004) pages 599-664

Paul Garrett, Cryptographic Protocols. in Public-Key Cryptography, editors
Paul Garrett and Daniel Lieman Editors , American Mathematical Society PSAM
Volume 62 (2005) pages 1-62

Iris Anshel, Michael Anshel, Dorian Goldfeld, Stephane Lemieux, Key agreement, the Algebraic EraserTM, and Lightweight Cryptography, in Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, The American Mathematical Society (2006), pp. 1-34.

Additional references will be supplied during the first week of classes.

Last Modified on: 04/02/2007

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