CPE 524

Computer Security Techniques II

History of cryptographic System, Public Key Systems, Digital Signature. Information Theory: Entropy, Perfect Secrecy, Unicity Distance, Complexity Theory, NP Completeness, Number Theory. Data Encryption Method Ciphers, Knaspsack Ciphers, Breakable NP-Complete Knapsack, Encryption Standards DES, RSA, Elliptic Curves. Cryptographic Techniques: Block and Stream Ciphers, Autokey, Endpoints of Encryption, One-Way Ciphers, Password and Authentication, Secret Keys and Public Keys, Threshold Scheme. Video Scrambling techniques. Digital video encryption techniques: principle, IRDETO, Viaaccess, Videoguard, etc. Security and Legality Issues: Copyrights, Patents, Trade Secret, Ownership of Products, Computer Crimes, Ethnical Issue in Computer Security.

Course Code
CPE 524
Department
Computer Engineering
Campus
Sumas University
Level
500 Level, Undergraduate
Instructor
Sumas University Lecturer
Semester
Second Semester
Credit
2 Units
Method
Lecture