School of Engineering and Information Technology - UNSW@ADFA

Cryptography - ZEIT8106

Student Information

A postgraduate course which provides an overview of the history, theoretical foundations, and current state, of the modern cryptographic algorithms used to provide various data security services. The primary focus of this course is on the detailed design and implementation of the fundamental cryptographic algorithms, along with some details about how they're incorporated into wider systems. This course is taught jointly with the under-graduate course ZEIT3102

The course will be lectured, with recordings made and uploaded onto the Olive server for those unable to attend. Students are expected to work through the course at a regular pace as indicated in the Course Outline.

Please note that this is not a course on computer security
(a separate postgraduate security course ZEIT8104 is offered by the school in that area).

This course is being offered in Semester 1, 2012.

The text for this course is:
William Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security", 5/e, Pearson/Prentice Hall 2010.

2012 Course Outline (PDF 130Kb)

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