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AKTU Information Theory for Cyber Security (HTCS401) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Cyber Security
Information Theory for Cyber Security HTCS401
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Official AKTU syllabus of Information Theory for Cyber Security (HTCS401) for B.Tech Honors Degree in Cyber Security – 4 credits, L-T-P 3-1-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Information Theory for Cyber Security
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Course Outcomes
At the end of course , the student will be able to understand
| CO 1 | To provide an insight to information coding techniques, error correction mechanism for cyber security. |
| CO 2 | To introduce the principles and applications of information theory. |
| CO 3 | To justify how information is measured in terms of probability and entropy. |
| CO 4 | To learn coding schemes, including error correcting codes. |
Course Content
| Unit | Topic | Proposed Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| I | 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. | 08 |
| II | 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. | 08 |
| III | Information-theoretic security and cryptograph, basic introduction to Diffie-Hellman, AES, and side-channel attacks. | 08 |
| IV | 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. | 08 |
| V | Digital and network forensics, Public Key Infrastructure, Light weight cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography and applications | 08 |
Text Books
- Information Theory and Coding, Muralidhar Kulkarni, K S Shivaprakasha, John Wiley & Sons.
- Communication Systems: Analog and digital, Singh and Sapre, Tata McGraw Hill.
- Fundamentals in information theory and coding, Monica Borda, Springer.
- Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography R Bose.
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