CS 5830 - [Cryptography]

Fall. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 2800 or equivalent, CS 4810 or mathematical maturity, or permission of instructor. Offered in New York City at Cornell Tech. Co-meets with CS 4830.

N. Stephens-Davidowitz (Ithaca), T. Ristenpart (NY Tech).

Introductory course in Cryptography. Topics include one-time pads, stream ciphers, block ciphers, authenticated encryption, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and more. The focus is on contemporary cryptographic algorithms used in practice, with some introduction to formal analyses.