<font color="red" size="3"><b>Winter 2009</b></font>

CSE3481 provides an overview of cryptographic algorithms and the main cryptosystems in use today. The course emphasises the application of cryptographic algorithms to designing secure protocols. Topics include Symmetric Key Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, and Hash Functions, and the application of these ideas toward providing security services and network protocols.

• <font color="#7a40A0"><b>Professor: Hamzeh Roumani</b></font> – Home Page.
• Email Filter: The string CSE3481/X in the Subject field, where X is your username on red.

• Lectures: MW 13:00-14:30 in BC-215 or CSEB-1004 (see the Calendar page).
• Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30 or by appointment.

Required (available in the bookstore and on reserve in Steacie):

• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware / Software Interface, 4th edition by D. Patterson and J. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2009).

References:

• Structured Computer Organization, 5th edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall (2006)

• MIPS RISC Architecture, by G. Kane & J. Heinrich, Prentice Hall (1992)

• Computer Organization, 5th Edition, by V.C. Hamacher, Z.G. Vranesic & S.G. Zaky, McGraw-Hill (2002)

• Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 7th edition, by William Stallings, Prentice Hall (2006)

• Ron Tal, <rontal>
• Hoang Lan Nguyen, <lan>

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