CS 5430 System Security
Fall or spring. 4 credits. Prerequisites: CS 4410 or 4450 and familiarity with JAVA, C, or C# programming languages. Next offered spring 2010.
Discusses security and survivability for computers and communications networks. Includes discussions of policy issues (e.g., the national debates on cryptography policy) as well as discussions of the technical alternatives for implementing the properties that comprise “trustworthiness” in a computing system. Covers mechanisms for authorization and authentication as well as cryptographic protocols.