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Courses » Cryptography and Network Security

Cryptography and Network Security

About the course
The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the areas of cryptography and cryptanalysis. This course develops a basic understanding of the algorithms used to protect users online and to understand some of the design choices behind these algorithms. Our aim is to develop a workable knowledge of the mathematics used in cryptology in this course. The course emphasizes to give a basic understanding of previous attacks on cryptosystems with the aim of preventing future attacks. A wide variety of basic cryptographic primitives will be discussed along with recent developments in some advanced topics like identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption, functional encryption, two-party/multi-party computation, bitcoin and crypto-currency and postquantum cryptography. The cryptanalysis part will help us understanding challenges for cybersecurity that includes network security, data security, mobile security, cloud security and endpoint security.  


Industry support – list of companies/industry that will recognize/value this online course

 Stratign FZE, Dubai(UAE),  SAG, DRDO, ISRO, WESEE, NTRO. 

15048 students have enrolled already!!

Course instructor

Sourav Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has completed his B.Sc (Honours in Mathematics) in1997 from University of Calcutta, India. He has done M.Stat (in statistics) and M.Tech (in computer science) from Indian Statistical Institute, India, in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He worked with Cryptology Research Group at Indian Statistical Institute as a PhD student and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from there in 2007. He was a Research Assistant at the Computer Science department of School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He visited Inria Rocquencourt, project CODES, France and worked as a post-doctoral research fellows at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a post-doctoral research fellows and a part time Lecturer with School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland.

 Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to cryptography, Classical Cryptosystem, Block Cipher. 


Week 2: Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple DES, Modes of Operation, Stream Cipher. 


Week 3: LFSR based Stream Cipher, Mathematical background, Abstract algebra, Number Theory. 


Week 4: Modular Inverse, Extended Euclid Algorithm, Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler Phi-Function, Euler's theorem. 


Week 5: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Introduction to Public Key Cryptosystem, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Knapsack Cryptosystem, RSA Cryptosystem. 


Week 6: Primarily Testing, ElGamal Cryptosystem, Elliptic Curve over the Reals, Elliptic curve Modulo a Prime. 


Week 7: Generalized ElGamal Public Key Cryptosystem, Rabin Cryptosystem. 


Week 8: Message Authentication, Digital Signature, Key Management, Key Exchange, Hash Function. 


Week 9: Cryptographic Hash Function, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), Digital Signature Standard (DSS). 


Week 10: Cryptanalysis, Time-Memory Trade-off Attack, Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis. 


Week 11: Cryptanalysis on Stream Cipher, Modern Stream Ciphers, Shamir's secret sharing and BE, Identity-based Encryption (IBE), Attribute-based Encryption (ABE). 


Week 12: Side-channel attack, The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Introduction to Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency.  


CERTIFICATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date of Exam: April 27th 2019 (Saturday).
  • Time of Exam: Morning session 9am to 2 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 8 out of 12 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
APPRECIATIONS AND COMMENTS BY THE PREVIOUS BATCH STUDENTS:
Dear Sir & His team!!! First of all I thank Dr. Sourav Mukhopadhay for delivering a very good course and I would like to thank all the TA's for the efforts they put in for clarifying all our queries in the forum.

With warm Regards,

Rasswanth S.