Information Security
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The official GTU curriculum for Information Security (subject code BE05048011) as prescribed for CS-Cyber · Semester 5 divides the course into 8 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05048011)Unit 1 Symmetric Cipher Model, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis and Attacks; Substitution and
- Transposition techniques
Unit 2 Stream ciphers and block ciphers, Block Cipher structure, Data Encryption standard
- (DES) with example
- strength of DES, Multiple encryption and triple DES, Electronic Code Book
- Cipher Block Chaining Mode
- Cipher Feedback mode
- Output Feedback mode
- Counter mode
- AES with structure
- its transformation functions
- key expansion
- example and implementation
Unit 3 Public Key Cryptosystems with Applications, Requirements and Cryptanalysis, RSA
- its computational aspects and security
- Diffie-Hillman Key Exchange algorithm
- Man-in-Middle attack
Unit 4 Cryptographic Hash Functions, their applications, Simple hash functions, its
- requirements and security
- Hash functions based on Cipher Block Chaining
- Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-512)
- Message Authentication Codes
- its requirements and security
- MACs based on Hash Functions
- Macs based on Block Ciphers
Unit 5 Digital Signature, its properties, requirements and security, various digital signature
- schemes (Elgamal and Schnorr)
- NIST digital Signature algorithm
Unit 6 Key management and distribution, symmetric key distribution using symmetric and
- asymmetric encryptions
- distribution of public keys
- Public key infrastructure
Unit 7 Remote user authentication with symmetric and asymmetric encryption, Kerberos, BIS
- standards in information security: IS/ISO/IEC 27001
Unit 8 Web Security threats and approaches, SSL architecture and protocol, Transport layer
- HTTPS and SSH
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