Instructor: William Banks

Description: Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the last 20 years as an important discipline that is not only the subject of an enormous amount of research, but provides the foundation for information security in many applications. In this course, we will study a variety of foundational topics in the theory of cryptography including ciphers, private and public-key encryption, hash functions, identification and signature protocols, secure voting schemes, primality testing and factorization algorithms.