CISB461
Information Security
(From 2017/2018)

Course Description

The course introduces students to the fundamental issues concerning information security and applied cryptography. The areas covered are protecting information using symmetric and public key cryptography, cryptographic hash functions and standards, key exchange, authentication, digital signatures, digital certificates, secure electronic transactions, non-malicious programme errors, viruses and other malicious code, and firewalls.


Prerequisite

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