1. Cryptography and Network Security
Host Institution – UNC Greensboro
Dr. Shan Suthaharan, primary instructor
Fall 2004, 15 students at UNCG
Remote Classrooms
Dr. Barry Kurtz, AppState, team instructor
2 students at AppState

2. Major Topics Classical encryption techniques.
Block ciphers and the Data Encryption Standard.
Introduction to finite fields.
Advanced Encryption Standard.
Contemporary symmetric ciphers; Confidentiality
Introduction to number theory.
Public-key cryptography and RSA; Key Management.
Message authentication; hash functions; hash algorithms.
Digital signatures; authentication protocols & applications.
Electronic mail security; IP and Web security.
Intruders, viruses, worms and Firewalls.

3. Programming Projects
Solve a sequence of small encryption/decryption problems
Implement RC5 encryption and decryption
Implement the RSA algorithm

4. Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Stephanie Rednour worked under the direction of B. Kurtz on this special research project

5. GUI for RC5 Encryption
Ramu Pulipati worked under the direction of Shan
Suthaharan on this special research project.

6. Future Plans – Fall 2005 Expand team teaching
10 students are signed up at AppState for Fall 2005
Use grid-enabled MPI to solve significant problems
Invite students to work on research problems in lieu of regular programming assignments
Encourage students to work in project teams