Cryptoanalysis: Fundamentals and Applications
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The official GTU curriculum for Cryptoanalysis: Fundamentals and Applications (subject code 2725906) as prescribed for CS · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 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 (2725906)Unit 1 Fundamentals of cryptosystems, Breaking cryptosystems
- Different cryptographic systems
- cryptographic primitives for security services
- Basic model of the cryptosystem
- access control
- secrecy of the encryption key, key lengths
- key spaces
- breaking encryption algorithms
- exhaustive key searches
- classes of attack
- academic attack
Unit 2 Cryptographic applications
- Cryptography for securing the internet
- Cryptography for wireless local area network
- Cryptography for mobile telecommunications
- Cryptography for secure payment card transactions
- Cryptography for video broadcasting
- Cryptography for identity cards
- Cryptography for anonymity
- Cryptography for digital currency
Unit 3 Cryptography for personal devices
- File protection
- Email security
- Messaging security
- platform security
Unit 4 General cryptanalytic methods
- Brute force
- Time-space tradeoffs
- Rainbow tables
- slide attacks
- cryptanalysis of hash functions
- cryptanalysis of random number generators
Unit 5 Linear cryptanalysis
- Matsui’s algorithms
- Linear expressions for S-boxes
- Matsui’s piling up Lemma
- Easy1 cipher
- Linear expressions and key recovery
- Linear cryptanalysis of DES, Multiple linear approximations
- Finding linear expressions
- linear cryptanalysis code