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May 29, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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MTH 435LEC - Introduction to Cryptography Explains the basics of cryptography, which is the systematic study of methods of concealing messages from people who are not authorized to read them. Topics include the following: cryptosystem definitions and basic types of attack; substitution ciphers. Hill ciphers; congruences and modular exponentiation; digital encryption standard; public key and RSA cryptosystems; pseudoprimes and primality testing; Pollard rho method; basic finite field theory; discrete log; and digital signatures.
Credits: 3
Grading Graded (GRD)
Typically Offered: Occasionally
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: MTH 419 or MTH 429 .
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