Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Cryptography and Computer Security

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	460-4046/01
Abbreviation	KPB
Course title	Cryptography and Computer Security
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator	RNDr. Eliška Ochodková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Introduction to information and data security. Basic concepts: attacks, risks, security functions and mechanisms, vulnerabilities.
Introduction to number theory.
Cryptography: basic concepts, cryptanalytic attacks.
Cryptography: classical techniques and its cryptanalysis.
Cryptography: symetric algorithms, basic concepts and principles, block cipher modes of operation, DES, AES.
Cryptography: aymetric algorithms (public-key cryptography), basic concepts and principles. RSA,
ELGamal.
Key management. Key exchange, Diffie-Hellman.
Authentication, authentication protocols, biometry.
Hash function, MAC.
Digital signature, DSS. Certificates, certificate authority.
Eliptic curve cryptography.
Firewalls, electronic mail security (PEM,
PGP, S/MIME), SSL.
Standards (ITSEC, ITSEM, Common Criteria,
ISO 9000,...) and legislative aspects of IT security.

Literature

[1] Ochodková E., Matematické základy kryptografických algoritmů, http://mi21.vsb.cz/modul/matematicke-zaklady-kryptografickych-algoritmu
[2] Stallings, W.: Cryptography and Network Security, Prentice Hall, 1999 a pozdější
[3] Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, , October 1996, 816 pages, http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

Advised literature

[1] Schneier B.: Applied cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995 (2nd edition)
[2] Pfleeger Ch.P.: Security in Computing, Prentice Hall, 1997 a pozdější
[3] Gollmann D.: Computer Security , Wiley 2000

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