Athens State Graduates

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CS 484 Applied Cryptography and System Security

Cryptography is about communication in the presence of an adversary. Modern cryptography encompasses problems as diverse as encryption, authentication, and key distribution. This course provides the foundation upon which one may understand what these problems are, how to evaluate protocols and methods to solve them, and how to build secure software solutions for these problems.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CS 372 and MA 308