CC04

Compulsory

2

On completing the course students will be able to:

• Develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to work as a computing security professional.
• Learn the concepts, principles, techniques and methodologies you need to design and assess complex networks, systems and applications, from the point of view of security.
• Develop the practical experience you need to plan, perform and evaluate data protection and cryptography processes.

• Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
• Decision Making
• Teamwork
• Production of free, creative, and inductive thinking

The course introduces fundamental concepts and tools of Cryptography, ending to presenting special topics in Cryptography. The topics covered include:

• Introduction
• Modular arithmetics
• Symmetric Cryptography
• Asymmetric Cryptography
• Public Key Cryptography
• Digital Signatures
• Hash Functions
• Chaotic and Quantum Cryptography