CNS SYLLABUS AND LINKS
CNS SYLLABUS UNIT I: Basic Principles: Security Goals, Cryptographic Attacks, Services and Mechanisms, Mathematics of Cryptography- integer arithmetic, modular arithmetic, matrices, linear conguence. UNIT II: Symmetric Encryption: Mathematics of Symmetric Key Cryptography-algebraic structures, GF(2n) Fields, Introduction to Modern Symmetric Key Ciphers-modern block ciphers, modern stream ciphers, Data Encryption Standard- DES structure, DES analysis, Security of DES, Multiple DES, Advanced Encryption Standard-transformations, key expansions, AES ciphers, Analysis of AES. UNIT III: Asymmetric Encryption: Mathematics of Asymmetric Key Cryptography-primes, primality testing, factorization, CRT, Asymmetric Key Cryptography- RSA crypto system, Rabin cryptosystem, Elgamal Crypto system, ECC UNIT IV: Data Integrity, Digital Signature Schemes & Key Management: Message Integrity and Message Authentication-message integrity, Random Oracle model, Messag...