Faculty of
Engineering

This course deals with the study of the elements of achieving security and the basics of confidentiality/reliability, cryptography, such as block encryption, data encryption standards and symmetric encryption algorithms (secret key): DES, AES and asymmetric RSA encryption algorithms. It also covers the fundamentals of data integrity, authentication and access control such as Hash, MD5, SHA methods and algorithms, data source authentication, and message authentication encodings: MACs, HMAC/MD5. It includes the basics of authorization, non-repudiation, access control such as digital signature and certificates, and certificate publishing and management such as the PKI architecture.