| Title: | Cryptography |
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| Course Section Number: | MAT-106-02 |
| Department: | Math |
| Description: | For almost as long as people have been communicating, they have tried to protect their messages. Cryptography-the use of codes and ciphers to keep messages secret-began long ago. For thousands of years, militaries and diplomats depended upon symmetric systems that required both parties to know the same secret key to encrypt and decrypt. From paper and pen to mechanical devices, these systems have been of ever-increasing importance in human history. Daring missions, clever cryptanalysts, and the earliest electronic computers helped the allies win World War II. Since then, asymmetric systems, also known as public-key cryptography, has made our modern Internet-based world possible. This course will examine several cryptography systems throughout history. We will learn how to use these systems to encrypt and decrypt messages, as well as how to break the systems. We will explore various mathematical topics and how they relate to cryptography. This course assumes no previous knowledge in these mathematical topics or in cryptography in general. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 15, 2024 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2024 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/16/2024-05/02/2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Hays Science, Room 003
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| Faculty: | Turner, William |
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