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

Please Note: this course is now being taught by Prof. Jiankun Hu. Please direct any enquiries about it to him by phone +61 (0)2 626 88186; or email J.Hu@adfa.edu.au

This course is being offered in Semester 1, 2013.

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

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).