Understand and apply the fundamental concepts of current cryptography. Students will be familiarised with terminology specific to cryptology and to problems of developing embedded systems.
| On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of: | Classification level | Priority |
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| Mastering the fundamental notions and major concepts of cryptography | 2. Understand | Essential |
| Mastering the potential drawbacks of a cryptographic protocol and proposing counter-measures | 2. Understand | Important |
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| Type of teaching activity | Content, sequencing and organisation |
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| Course/Supervised study | Historical introduction to cryptography, description of the Kerckhoffs rules. |
| Course/Supervised study | Secret key cryptography with the development of AES Public key cryptography : RSA, ECC Cryptanalysis and side channel attacks Hash functions, key switch protocols |