CS 5430 - [System Security]

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: CS 4410 and familiarity with Java, C, or C# programming languages. Next offered 2014-2015.

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Discusses security and survivability for computers and communications networks. Includes discussions of policy issues (e.g., the national debates on cryptography policy) as well as discussions of the technical alternatives for implementing the properties that comprise “trustworthiness” in a computing system. Covers mechanisms for authorization and authentication as well as cryptographic protocols.