General Information
Covers basic concepts of cryptology, types of cryptosystems, implementation of security services, key management, public key certificates, public key infrastructure, e-mail and web security. Discusses modern secret-key ciphers, modes of operation, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key cryptography, and digital signature schemes. Covers cryptographic standards and secure internet protocols. Introduces educational and public domain software implementing modern cryptographic algorithms.
| Type | Day | Time | Location | Instructor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | Tuesday, Thursday | 3:00 pm - | 4:15 pm | in Music and Theater Building 1006 | Jens-Peter Kaps |
Documents
Instructor
Dr. Jens-Peter Kaps
Office: Engineering Building, Room 3222
Email: jkaps'at'gmu.edu
Office Hours
Office hours are held in-person in my office and using Zoom. Here is the Zoom link to the Office Hour.
Additional office hours are by appointment only (see the Contact page for how to setup an appointment).
Projects
Projects will involve getting familiar with selected implementations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols and with the FOBOS side-channel analysis platform. Based on this knowledge and your own experiments, you will be asked to solve a set of simple problems, and prepare a short report including answers to the questions included in the instruction.
Textbook
Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl, Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04101-3. If you are a Mason student you can access this book on Springer Link. The lecture follows to some extend this book.
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice by William Stallings, Prentice Hall; 7th edition, 2016, ISBN: 978-0134444284.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone, CRC Press, Inc.; 1996, ISBN: 0-84-938523-7. (all chapters of this book can be downloaded from the book web page)
You can find links to more interesting books on the Literature page.