Credits: 7.5

Type: professional

Objectives:

To provide a practical introduction to cryptography and the study of error-correcting codes. The objective is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to work in this field.

Knowledge:

• Basic concepts in information theory.
• Error-correcting codes.
• Algorithms in finite fields.
• Cryptosystems.
• Geometric codes.
• Questions of computational complexity.

Subject-specific competences:

• To handle basic mathematical tools and to develop creative abilities.
• To understand and design error-correcting systems.
• To understand and design message encryption and decryption systems, using both private and public keys.
• To program algorithms and estimate their complexity.