====== APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY  ======
<html><font color="red" size="3"><b>Winter 2011</b></font></html>

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===== Description  =====

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.

===== Instructor & Office Hours=====
  * Professor:<hi #dbe5f1> **Hamzeh Roumani** </hi>-- [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani|Home Page]]
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  * Lectures: Mondays 4:00-5:30 pm in VH 1152A
  * Labs: Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 pm in CSEB 1004

  * Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 pm

===== Textbooks =====
**Required** (available in the bookstore):
  * //Cryptography and Network Security, 5th edition// by William Stallings, Pearson (2011).


**References**:
  * //Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice// by Wenbo Mao, Pearson (2004)

  * //Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 2nd edition// by Wade Trappe and Lawrence C. Washington, Prentice Hall (2006)