Unit information: Introduction to Cryptography in 2009/10

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Unit name Introduction to Cryptography
Unit code COMS30124
Credit points 10
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Professor. Smart
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

EMAT10702
Co-requisites

None
School/department Department of Computer Science
Faculty Faculty of Engineering

Description including Unit Aims

The units aims to develop an understanding of some of the techniques of cryptography and the underlying ideas behind them. This will involve the analysis of some early historical ciphers, plus the two most popular moden ones (RSA and DES). You will learn the main supporting tools from Information Theory, Complexity Theory and Number Theory.

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