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 Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security - COMP3441
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Contact: Buckland,Richard James
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP2011 or COMP2711, and MATH1081 or MATH1090, and COMP3331 or 12uc of courses with a mark of 75 or better.
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
  

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.

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