BITS Pilani Cryptography

I want to do Cryptography course form Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani so would you please give me some information about this course?

[Kiran Chandar]

Cryptography course is offered by Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Goa Campus.

Here I am giving you some information about this course….

Course Title: Cryptography

The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to applied cryptography, suited to students and practitioners in industry.

Course Plan:
Topics
Basics of cryptography, Simple symmetric encryption, General
thoughts on breaking cryptosystems, Modular arithmetic, Groups,
Integer rings and some historical ciphers.

Encryption and decryption of stream ciphers, Random numbers,
Cryptographically secure pseudo random number generators, One
time pad, Linear feedback shift register, Trivium.

Fiestel ciphers, Encryption, Decryption, Security and Imple-
mentations of Data Encryption Standard (DES), 3DES, DESX,
Lightweight cipher.

Galois fields, Internal structure of Advance Encryption Standard
(AES), Security and implementation of AES.

Modes of operations of block ciphers: ECB, CBC, OFB, CFB,
CTR, Enhancing the security of block ciphers,

Hash functions from block ciphers, MD4 family, Secure hash al-
gorithm, SHA-I, SHA-3, Message authentication codes from hash
functions and block ciphers, Galois counter message authentica-
tion code.

Aspects of Public-key cryptography, Relevant number theory for
public-key algorithms.

Encryption, decryption, efficiency & correctness of RSA, Prime
numbers, RSA in practice and attacks.

Diffe-Hellman key exchange and its security issues, Discrete log-
arithm problem, Elgamal encryption scheme.

Elliptic curve cryptosystem, Discrete logarithm problem with el-
liptic curves, Diffe-Hellman key exchange with elliptic curve.

Principles of digital signatures, RSA, Elliptic curve and Elgamal
digital signature scheme, Digital signature algorithm.

Qunatum Cryptography

Conclusion and Summary.

Text Book:
T1: Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 2006.
Bruce Schneier.

Reference Books:
R1: Cryptography and Network Security, 4th Edition, 2006, Pearson Education.
William Stallings.
R2: An Introduction to Cryptography, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2nd Edition, 2007.
Richard A. Mollin.
R3: Introduction to Cryptography, Springer, 2nd Edition, 2004.
Johannes Buchmann.
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BITS Pilani Cryptography course detail




Address;
BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus
NH 17B Bypass Road
Zuarinagar
Sancoale, Goa 403726

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