Some Aspects of Cryptology Teaching

Cryptology is a mathematical hard core of information security, since many of the information security problems (e.g. confidentiality, integrity, authenticity of information) can be (and often are) solved by means of cryptographical tools/algorithms. We analyse 20 selected academic courses in cryptology with respect to their aims, scopes, contents, organisation and literature used/recommended to students. We study the dependencies of the most important cryptological topics, which were taught in the courses and propose the content of some cryptology courses for various auditoriums (e.g. users, security managers, programmers and cryptologists).