ION551 COMPUTER SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
| Course Code: |
9040551 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Informatics Online |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Masters |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The course introduces fundamental principles and concepts in computer security and teaches cryptography as a leveraging tool for building secure computer systems. Topics on cryptography include simple ciphers, both symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hash functions, message authentication codes and digital signatures. Other main computer security issues such as authentication, access control, operating system security and secure programming are also given. Security standards are briefly presented.
