Department of Information Science and Telecommunications
School of Information Science
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Electives Continued

  • INFSCI 2620 Developing Secure Systems: This course fosters the design and implementation of secure systems. Coverage include principles and practice of InfoSec, ComSec, Design of Secure Operating Systems, Design of secure Database systems, Secure Application Development, Software security, Design and Implementation of Secure Networked services, Secure Design of XML-based applications, Secure multimedia applications, Distributed system security and interoperability, and Evaluation/certification Analysis software products and secure systems. PREREQS: TELCOM 2810, 2821. [previously offered as INFSCI 2935 and INFSCI 2579] (Spring'07, Spring'06)

  • IS 2731: Security in E-commerce: This course covers concepts and technologies that are important in the design and implementation of secure e-commerce system. Topics covered include review of standard security principles, e-commerce applications and their security issues, policy and standards. The course will detail secure e-commerce transactions – both B2C and B2B, EDI and its security related technology and issues, Public Key Infrastructure for e-commerce, Secure Electronic Transaction, Digital Cash, Single-use credit cards; Legal, ethical and policy issues related to e-commerce. PREREQS: TELCOM 2810, 2821. [previously offered as INFSCI 2937:Special Topics and INFSCI 2771] (link)


Advanced Courses

  • TELCOM 2829: Advanced Cryptography: This course is aimed at Ph.D. students and covers algorithm complexity, advanced number theory (Galois fields, quadratic residues, zero-knowledge schemes, one-time signatures), efficient implementation of encryption schemes in hardware and software and other advanced topics in cryptography. (link)

  • TEL-2938: Advanced Topics in Security Assured Information Systems: This course is aimed at Ph.D. students and final semester Masters students. The course consists of a review of state of the art literature in information assurance on specific research topics, such as, quantum computing & cryptography, broadcast encryption, sensor security, security in ad-hoc networks, etc. This course will be taught in part by guest lectures from visiting experts working in the specific fields of expertise.

  • TELCOM 2938: Special Topics in Security Assured Information Systems

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