[HTCS 401] Information Theory for Cybersecurity Notes Unit 2 LINK
[HTCS 401] Information Theory for Cybersecurity Notes Unit 3 LINK
[HTCS 401] Information Theory for Cybersecurity Notes Unit 4 LINK
[HTCS 401] Information Theory for Cybersecurity Notes Unit 5 LINK
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Syllabus
Unit 1
Shannon’s foundation of Information theory, Random variables, Probability distribution factors, Uncertainty/entropy information measures, Leakage, Quantifying Leakage and Partitions, Lower bounds on key size: secrecy, authentication and secret sharing. provable security, computationally-secure, symmetric cipher.
Unit 2
Secrecy, Authentication, Secret sharing, Optimistic results on perfect secrecy, Secret key agreement, Unconditional Security, Quantum Cryptography, Randomized Ciphers, Types of codes: block codes, Hamming and Lee metrics, description of linear block codes, parity check Codes, cyclic code, Masking techniques.
Unit 3
Information-theoretic security and cryptograph, basic introduction to Diffie-Hellman, AES, and side-channel attacks.
Unit 4
Secrecy metrics: strong, weak, semantic security, partial secrecy, Secure source coding: rate-distortion theory for secrecy systems, side information at receivers, Differential privacy, Distributed channel synthesis.
Unit 5
Digital and network forensics, Public Key Infrastructure, Light weight cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography and applications
