Course catalog description:


227. MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY (3) Rogaway
Lecture--3 hours.  Prerequisite: course 220 or 222A. 
Modern cryptography, with an emphasis on models, definitions, 
protocols and proofs.  Complexity-theoretic foundations.
One-way functions.  Pseudorandom generators and function 
families.  Symmetric and asymmetric encryption.  Digital 
signatures.  Interactive proofs and zero-knowledge.
Secure protocols.