Cryptography

Course Code 18EC744

Syllabus

Module -1

Classical Encryption Techniques: Symmetric cipher model, Substitution techniques, Transposition techniques (Text 1: Chapter 1) Basic Concepts of Number Theory and Finite Fields: Euclidean algorithm, Modular arithmetic (Text 1: Chapter 3)

Module -2

SYMMETRIC CIPHERS: Traditional Block Cipher structure, Data encryption standard (DES), The AES Cipher.

(Text 1: Chapter 2: Section1, 2, Chapter 4:Section 2, 3, 4)

Module -3

Basic Concepts of Number Theory and Finite Fields:Groups, Rings and Fields, Finite fields of the form GF(p), Prime Numbers, Fermat’s and Euler’s theorem, discrete logarithm.

(Text 1: Chapter 3 and Chapter 7: Section 1, 2, 5)

Module -4

ASYMMETRIC CIPHERS: Principles of Public-Key Cryptosystems, The RSA algorithm, Diffie - Hellman Key Exchange, Elliptic Curve Arithmetic, Elliptic Curve Cryptography

(Text 1: Chapter 8, Chapter 9: Section 1, 3, 4)

Module -5

Pseudo-Random-Sequence Generators and Stream Ciphers: Linear Congruential Generators, Linear Feedback Shift Registers, Design and analysis of stream ciphers, Stream ciphers using LFSRs, A5, Hughes XPD/KPD, Nanoteq, Rambutan, Additive generators, Gifford, Algorithm M,PKZIP (Text 2: Chapter 16)

Text Books:

1. William Stallings , “Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practice”, Pearson Education Inc., 6th Edition, 2014, ISBN: 978-93-325-1877-3

2. Bruce Schneier, “Applied Cryptography Protocols, Algorithms, and Source code in C”, Wiley Publications, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 9971-51-348-X.

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