MTH-116 Introduction to Cryptology

GER: MR (Mathematical and Formal Reasoning)
An introduction to cryptology, the making and breaking of codes and ciphers, from a mathematical perspective. Cryptology related topics include monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, polyalphabetic substitution ciphers, the index of coincidence, the Playfair cipher, transposition ciphers, matrix ciphers, stream ciphers, the data encryption standard, the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, and RSA. Mathematical related topics include number theory, matrix algebra, probability, and statistics. 4 credits.