Electrical & Computer Engin 697CR - ST-Crypto Engineering

Cryptographic algorithms are the "engine" that drive virtually every security solution, from email encryption to biometric passports. This course will start with a review of the most important symmetric and public-key crypto algorithm. The focus on the course will then be on the efficient implementation and the secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms. Both pose considerable challenges. We will treat topics such as efficient arithmetic with very long numbers and side-channel attacks.