CS 5830 - Cryptography

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 2800 or equivalent, CS 4810 or mathematical maturity, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with CS 4830/CS 6830.

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.