Study Group Details

This course will explore the history of cryptography, the use of ciphers and codes to protect secrets, and cryptanalysis—the breaking of those secrets—from ancient to modern times and beyond. For instance, learn how Mary Queen of Scots lost her head due to a broken secret and the significance of the Enigma during World War II. At the heart of cybersecurity, we will cover fundamental terminology and how encryption and decryption methods work such as pseudo-randomness, block/stream ciphers, private-key (DES/AES), public-key (RSA), hashing (MD5), digital signatures (DSA), algorithmic number theory, political aspects, and quantum computing/communications. This study group has a high class size capacity.