With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, Information Assurance (IA) has become very important and crucial. To ensure the security of information in increasingly prevalent e-commerce, e-business, and to protect private data from hackers and saboteurs, professionals should have sound knowledge in the area of information assurance. Among the others, cryptography is one of the key techniques that ensure confidentiality and integrity of information. It is essential to establish a cryptography course, as part of the information assurance curricula to provide computer science majors such knowledge.
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