A proposed curriculum of cryptography courses

  • Authors:
  • Wasim A. Al-Hamdani;Ivory J. Griskell

  • Affiliations:
  • Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY;Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY

  • Venue:
  • InfoSecCD '05 Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Information security curriculum development
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Cryptography Course is a major part of Computer security, Information security, Network security and all Information security related courses [12, chapter 1]. This course could be offered to undergraduate level (S level) or graduate level students. This article focuses on the problem:If the Cryptography course is offered as two consecutive courses, there is no problem because there are about 30-32 weeks of instruction for the 3-credit course (about 100 hours). This quantity of time is quite ample to cover the major Cryptography subjects (including mathematics, classical algorithms, Block algorithms, Stream cipher Public Key, Crypto hash functions, Authentication and Identification, Key management protocols, Cryptography application: web security, PKI, Email, internet, and all other Cryptography algorithms). However, the problem arises when there is only one course with 3 credit hours per week equaling 45 hours. The course has to be designed for the students' level of studies.This short paper proposes a Cryptography curriculum designed as one course to suit both the undergraduate and graduate level. The curriculum is detailed and distributed over 15 weeks.