{"id":348,"date":"2026-04-18T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jadynrichardson\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:25:49","slug":"cs-463-cryptography-for-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jadynrichardson\/cs-463-cryptography-for-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"CS 463 – Cryptography for Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After completing this 3-credit course, students should have strong mathematical foundations including information theory, number theory, factoring, and prime number generation; cryptographic protocols including basic building blocks and protocols; cryptographic techniques including key generation and key management, and applications; cryptographic algorithms including DES, AES, Stream Ciphers, Hash functions, digital signatures, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Recognize the general purpose and goals of the online course<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Explain functionality of current cryptographic techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Identify basic mathematical techniques underlying cryptology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Evaluate the computational and memory needs of cryptographic techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Measure the security strengths and risks of cryptographic techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Discern implications of hardware and software implementations of cryptographic techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Analyze and critique new cryptographic protocols<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Analyze applications in terms of security needs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Match the security needs of application with appropriate cryptographic techniques<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Course Materials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Stream ciphers and DES<\/p>\n\n\n\n