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Course Title
Block Ciphers
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Course Code
IAM 512
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Credit
(3-0)3
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Prerequisites
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Content
General Principles. Shannon’s Theory: Shannon’s Theory: Perfect Secrecy, Entropy, Huffman Encoding and Entropy, Properties of Entropy, Spurious Keys and Unicity Distance. Descriptions of DES and AES Semi-Finalist Algorithms: Rijndael, Mars, Serpent, Twofish and RC6. Boolean Functions, Correlations and Walsh Transforms. Cryptographic Criteria: Propagation Characteristics, Nonlinearity and Resiliency, Generalization to S-Boxes. Differential Cryptanalysis and Linear Cryptanalysis. NIST Tests for the Evaluation of the Algorithms and Performance Comparison of AES Semi-Finalist Algorithms.
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Outline
- 1-2 Week General Principles. Shannon’s Theory: Perfect Secrecy, Entropy, Huffman Encoding and Entropy, Properties of Entropy, Spurious Keys and Unicity Distance.
- 3-4 Week Boolean Functions, Correlations and Walsh Transforms.
- 5-6 Week Cryptographic Criteria: Propagation Characteristics, Nonlinearity and Resiliency, Generalization to S-Boxes.
- 7-8 Week Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis.
- 9-12 Week Descriptions of AES Semi-Finalist Algorithms: Rijndael, Mars, Serpent, Twofish and RC6.
- 13-14 Week NIST Tests for the Evaluation of the Algorithms and Performance Comparison of AES Semi-Finalist Algorithms.
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