Cryptography and Cyber Security detailed syllabus for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the CSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Computer Science & Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CSE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of cryptography and cyber security is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY 9 Computer Security Concepts – The OSI Security Architecture – Security Attacks – Security Services and Mechanisms – A Model for Network Security – Classical encryption techniques: Substitution techniques, Transposition techniques, Steganography – Foundations of modern cryptography: Perfect security – Information Theory – Product Cryptosystem – Cryptanalysis.
Unit II
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Unit III
ASYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY 9 MATHEMATICS OF ASYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY: Primes – Primality Testing -Factorization – Eulers totient function, Fermats and Eulers Theorem – Chinese Remainder Theorem – Exponentiation and logarithm ASYMMETRIC KEY CIPHERS: RSA cryptosystem – Key distribution – Key management – Diffie Hellman key exchange — Elliptic curve arithmetic – Elliptic curve cryptography.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CYBER CRIMES AND CYBER SECURITY 9 Cyber Crime and Information Security – classifications of Cyber Crimes – Tools and Methods -Password Cracking, Keyloggers, Spywares, SQL Injection – Network Access Control – Cloud Security – Web Security – Wireless Security
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network Security – Principles and Practice”, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education, 2017.
- Nina Godbole, Sunit Belapure, Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber crimes, Computer Forensics and Legal Perspectives, First Edition, Wiley India, 2011.
Reference Books:
- Behrouz A. Ferouzan, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, “Cryptography and Network Security”, 3rd Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 2015.
- Charles Pfleeger, Shari Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies, “Security in Computing”, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 2015.
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