Cryptography

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit students will be able to:

LO1. Examine the symmetric encryption algorithms and ciphers.

LO2. Assess public key encryption protocols and signatures and their uses in the message and key exchanges.

LO3. Analyse the security issues related to symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods.

LO4 Evaluate advanced encryption protocols and their applications in secure message exchanges.

LO1 & LO2 D1 Evaluate the improvement introduced by AES compared to DES and 3DES encryption standards.

D2 Evaluate different definitions of provable security

D3 Critically evaluate the access structures for secret sharing schemes.