INFORMATION SECURITY

Course Code:
CIS 261
Active Term:
Spring Term
/ All Years
Course Description:

This course will introduce students to the concept of securing data in transfer or during storage. This includes a discussion on information security objectives: data integrity, authentication, and data privacy: classical ciphers and block ciphers: cryptography (secret key cryptography, public key cryptography), cryptographic algorithms used; message digests; password-based, address based, and cryptographic authentication; and end to end security.

Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
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