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CSC 487 - Network Security

Credits: 3
An introduction to cryptography and its application to network and operating system security: security threats, applications of cryptography, secret key and public key cryptographic algorithms, hash functions, basic number theory, authentication, and security for electronic mail.

Prerequisites: “C” or better in CSC 300 .


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