Objectives and Tasks for
Learning Module 1: Cryptography

Course Objectives

This learning module addresses the following course objectives:

1. Describe the importance of information security and how it affects our changing world.
3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of principles and practices in information security, including application of encryption.
4. Design, execute, and evaluate personal or organizational security policies, procedures and practices.
5. Analyze critically situations of computer use, identifying the security issues, consequences and viewpoints.

Module Objectives

After completing the tasks of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the course policies for this course.
  2. Describe the three properties of a secure system.
  3. Describe the three goals of information security.
  4. Describe the McCumber Model of information security.
  5. Distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms
  6. Explain the important properties of cryptographic keys.
  7. Describe the properties of a cryptographic hash function and explain how they are used for authentication, including digital signatures.
  8. Describe the properties of digital certificates.

Tasks

To achieve the objectives of this module, you must do the following:

  1. Complete Assignment Zero by the due date if you have not already done so.
  2. Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the textbook.
  3. Review the slides Introduction and Overview, Cryptography I, Cryptography II, and Cryptography III with class and instructor.
  4. Complete Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 by the due dates. (Note: Quiz 2 is due after the module has been completed.)
  5. Complete Assignment 1  by the due date.
  6. Complete the additional reading for this module.