| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Computer Engineering: Computer Security and Intelligent Systems (2013) |
 Subjects |
| CRYPTOLOGY AND INFORMATION SECURITY |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
| Subject | CRYPTOLOGY AND INFORMATION SECURITY | Code | 17665108 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | First | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction to cryptology. | Terminology. Historical evolution. Applications of cryptography. |
| Historical and information-theoretic foundations of cryptology. | Historical cryptosystems. Foundations of information theory. Optimal compression. Perfect secrecy and authenticity. Elementary cryptanalysis. |
| Shared-key encryption: stream cryptosystems. | Requirements on pseudorandom sequences for stream cryptosystems. Linear generators. Non-linear generators. |
| Shared-key encryption: block cryptosystems. | Structure of block cryptosystems. The Data Encryption Standard. The Advanced Encryption Standard. The IDEA cryptosystem. Attacks on block cryptosystems. Indistinguishability. Key management. |
| Mathematical foundations of public-key cryptography. | Modular arithmetic. Finite fields. Elliptic curves. Complexity theory. Difficult problems in modular arithmetic and elliptic curves. |
| Public-key encryption. | One-way and trapdoor functions. Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The RSA cryptosystem. The ElGamal cryptosystem. The digital envelope. Probabilistic public-key encryption. |
| Digital signatures. | Concept. Hash functions. RSA signatures. ElGamal signatures. Digital Signature Algorithm. Elliptic curve Digital Signature Algorithm. Threshold signatures. Group signatures. Public-key infrastructures. |
| Cryptographic protocols. | Identification and authentication: Shamir's three pass protocol, Fiat-Shamir identification, zero-knowledge proofs. Secret sharing. Mutual distrust situations: bit commitment, oblivious transfer, simultaneous exchange of secrets, secure contract signing, secure multi-party computation, computing on encrypted data. Electronic cash. Electronic voting. Quantum cryptography. |
