CO 437Cryptography and Communications Security
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1987–88 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Conventional or single key cryptography from the Caesar cipher to the U.S. Data Encryption Standard. Public or two key cryptography. Applications include secrecy/ privacy, user or message authentication, financial transactions security.
As printed in the 1987–88 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: STAT 230. At least one of C&O 331 and PMATH 340 is recommended.
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1987–88 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1987–88 to 1994–95 7 calendars
Conventional or single key cryptography from the Caesar cipher to the U.S. Data Encryption Standard. Public or two key cryptography. Applications include secrecy/ privacy, user or message authentication, financial transactions security.
Prereq: STAT 230. At least one of C&O 331 and PMATH 340 is recommended.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit