Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

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MIT Course Number

6.875

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Features

Course Description

This course features a rigorous introduction to modern cryptography, with an emphasis on the fundamental cryptographic primitives of public-key encryption, digital signatures, pseudo-random number generation, and basic protocols and their computational complexity requirements.

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Silvio Micali. 6.875 Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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