IAAS 491 - Cryptography

3 Credits
This course presents cryptography as the essential tool for private communications over an unsecured, public medium such as the Internet. Cryptography is shown as the enabling technology for E-commerce, virtual private networks (VPNs), and secure operating systems. Major topics of the course include cryptographic algorithms, certificates, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Other areas of interest include authentication, confidentiality, nonrepudiation, secret key cryptography, public key cryptography, digital certificates, ciphers, and digital signatures.

Prerequisite(s): IAAS 481 and MATH 135, MATH 150 or MATH 215
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the different elements of network security, including the definition of adversary and network security.
2. Identify the different types of attacks, including message insertion, message modification, message replay, and denial-of-service attacks DoS or DDoS.
3. Apply network security services authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, anti-replay, anonymity, specification, and verification of network protocols.
4. Apply cryptographic review, including substitution and transposition.
5. Apply symmetric key cryptography DES, AES.
6. Apply asymmetric key cryptography Diffie-Hellman-Merkle, Rivest-Shamir-Adelman, and hashing functions.
7. Develop network security designs, including IPsec, Hop Integrity, SSLTLS, PKI, and Kerberos.