UNSW Handbook Course - Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security

Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security - COMP3441


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: MATH1081 or MATH1090, COMP3931 or 65 in COMP3331 or 75 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.

Assumed Knowledge: MATH1081 Disrete Mathematics.

Further Information

CSE class page: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3441

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