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2019-11-21.10.49.10-Cryptography and Network Security (Syllabus)

The document outlines the syllabus for a course on Cryptography and Network Security. The course covers 5 units: an introduction to cryptography theories and techniques; symmetric key cryptography including algorithms like DES and AES; public key cryptography including RSA and elliptic curve cryptography; message authentication and integrity including hash functions and digital signatures; and security practices like encryption of email and firewalls. The objectives of the course are to understand cryptography concepts and approaches to build security mechanisms for computer networks.

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2019-11-21.10.49.10-Cryptography and Network Security (Syllabus)

The document outlines the syllabus for a course on Cryptography and Network Security. The course covers 5 units: an introduction to cryptography theories and techniques; symmetric key cryptography including algorithms like DES and AES; public key cryptography including RSA and elliptic curve cryptography; message authentication and integrity including hash functions and digital signatures; and security practices like encryption of email and firewalls. The objectives of the course are to understand cryptography concepts and approaches to build security mechanisms for computer networks.

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CS8792 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY SYLLABUS
LTPC3003
OBJECTIVES:
To understand Cryptography Theories, Algorithms and Systems.
To understand necessary Approaches and Techniques to build protection mechanisms in
order to secure computer networks.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Security trends - Legal, Ethical and Professional Aspects of Security, Need for Security at
Multiple levels, Security Policies - Model of network security – Security attacks, services and
mechanisms – OSI security architecture – Classical encryption techniques: substitution
techniques, transposition techniques, steganography- Foundations of modern cryptography:
perfect security – information theory – product cryptosystem – cryptanalysis.

UNIT II SYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY 9


MATHEMATICS OF SYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY: Algebraic structures – Modular
arithmetic-Euclid’s algorithm- Congruence and matrices - Groups, Rings, Fields- Finite fields-
SYMMETRIC KEY CIPHERS: SDES – Block cipher Principles of DES – Strength of DES –
Differential and linear cryptanalysis - Block cipher design principles – Block cipher mode of
operation – Evaluation criteria for AES – Advanced Encryption Standard - RC4 – Key
distribution.

UNIT III PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY 9


MATHEMATICS OF ASYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY: Primes – Primality Testing –
Factorization – Euler’s totient function, Fermat’s and Euler’s Theorem - Chinese Remainder
Theorem – Exponentiation and logarithm - ASYMMETRIC KEY CIPHERS: RSA cryptosystem
– Key distribution – Key management – Diffie Hellman key exchange - ElGamal cryptosystem
– Elliptic curve arithmetic-Elliptic curve cryptography.

UNIT IV MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION AND INTEGRITY 9


Authentication requirement – Authentication function – MAC – Hash function – Security of
hash function and MAC – SHA –Digital signature and authentication protocols – DSS- Entity
Authentication: Biometrics, Passwords, Challenge Response protocols- Authentication
applications - Kerberos, X.509

UNIT V SECURITY PRACTICE AND SYSTEM SECURITY 9


Electronic Mail security – PGP, S/MIME – IP security – Web Security – SYSTEM SECURITY:
Intruders – Malicious software – viruses – Firewalls.

TEXT BOOK:
1. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, PHI 3rd
Edition, 2006.

REFERENCES:
1. C K Shyamala, N Harini and Dr. T R Padmanabhan: Cryptography and Network Security,
Wiley India Pvt. Ltd

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2. BehrouzA. Foruzan, Cryptography and Network Security, Tata McGraw Hill 2007.
3. Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Network Security: PRIVATE
Communication in a PUBLIC World, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-046019-2

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