INSE 6110 Foundations of Cryptography (Winter 2012)
Tentative course information - subject to change.
Important:
Most course materials will be made available via Concodia's Moodle website.
Moodle should be accessible through the MyConcordia Portal.
If you cannot access the Moodle site, let me know.
Basic Information
Instructor: Mohammad Mannan
Email: mmannan (at) ciise.concordia.ca
Lectures: Tuesdays 8:30pm-11:00pm, Hall Building H-431
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Office hours: Tuesdays 1pm-2:30pm, room EV6.221
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Course outline: PDF copy of the course outline is here
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the basic theory of cryptographic techniques
used for information security. It is intended for graduate students with basic
computer science/engineering background and is a prerequisite for
(INSE6120, INSE6130, INSE6140, and INSE6150). More at the CIISE course
website.
Course Textbooks
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Handbook of Applied Cryptography,
Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone, CRC Press.
The book is available for free online.
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(Recommended for supplementary material):
Cryptography and Network Security, 5/e,
William Stallings, 2010 (older editions are fine too).
Marking Scheme
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35% - Assignments/Projects (may include programming, report writing and presentations).
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25% - Mid-term exam (in class - date: Feb. 14, 2012)
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40% - Final exam (to be scheduled by registrar during exam period)
Academic Integrity Policy
Any form of cheating, plagiarism, impersonation, falsification of a document
as well as any other form of dishonest behaviour by a student is an academic
offence under the Academic Code of Conduct and may lead to severe academic
penalties up to and including suspension and expulsion.
Take the time to learn more at
http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/
As examples only, you are not permitted to:
- Copy from anywhere without indicating where it came from
- Let another student copy your work and then submit it as his/her own
- Hand in the same assignment in more than one class
- Have unauthorized material or devices in an exam.
Note that you do not have to be caught using them – just having them is an offence
- Copy from someone’s else exam
- Communicate with another student during an exam
- Add or remove pages from an examination booklet or take the booklet out of an exam room
- Acquire exam or assignment answers or questions
- Write an exam for someone else or have someone write an exam for you
- Submit false documents such as medical notes or student records
- Falsify data or research results
Last updated: January 10, 2012