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Texas A&M University
Mathematics

MATH 673 - Information, Secrecy and Authentication I - Spring 2024

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.

This course will cover a broad range of modern cryptography from a mathematical perspective. This will include public key cryptosystems (such as rsa, ElGamal, knapsack and lattice methods, and elliptic curve methods), security protocols (e.g., digital signatures, identification and secret sharing schemes, and zero-knowledge proofs), and the necessary tools from number theory and information theory.

Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor. No prior class on cryptography is assumed but some mathematical sophistication is required. A course at the undergraduate level on number theory would be useful but certainly not necessary, as we will develop what is needed (part of the fun). However, undergraduate courses on algebra (groups/rings/fields) and on real and complex analysis will be needed.

Sections

This course is not taught in Spring 2024.