CMPT 404: Cryptography and Cryptographic Protocols
This elective course will first be offered in the Fall of 2008 and annually thereafter with an estimated enrollment of 15-25 students. It will initially be offered only on the Burnaby Campus. If demand exists, it may also be offered on the SFU Surrey and/or SFU Vancouver campuses.
Journals
The Library currently provides many journals that will support this program. For example:
ACM Transactions on information and system security
Computers & security
Cryptologia
Designs, codes & cryptography
Information management & computer security
Journal of cryptography
Please see our subject listing of Computing Science Journals for a more complete list.
The Library has identified one journal not in our collection that could prove useful to this course. Upon consultation with the faculty, it can be purchased out of existing Computing Science allocations. The recommended title is:
Journal of computer security $886
Total cost for serials for CMPT 404: $886/year
Bibliographic Tools
The library provides access to a number of databases that will support this program such as the ACM Digital Library, IEEE/IEE Electronic Library, and CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library. For more examples, please see our list of databases in Computing Science.
No further Bibliographic tools will be required.
Monographs
Relevant Subject headings related to this program and the SFU library's holdings are as follows. The first number is the holdings across all three SFU Libraries. Numbers in parentheses ( ) are holdings at SFU Surrey, and numbers in brackets [ ] are holdings at SFU Vancouver.
coding theory 232 (43) [34]
cryptography 153 (97) [75]
computer security 812 (705) [604]
No additional monographs required to support this course.
Total costs for CMPT 404: $886/year
CMPT 431: Distributed Systems
This elective course will be offered once or twice annually with an estimated enrollment of 30 students. One offering will be on on the SFU Burnaby Campus and the second on the SFU Surrey Campus.
Journals
The Library currently provides many journals that will support this program. For example:
Distributed computing
International journal of parallel, emergent and distributed systems : IJPEDS
Journal of parallel and distributed computing
Please see our subject listing of Computing Science Journals for a complete list.
No additional journals will be required to support this course.
Bibliographic Tools
The library provides access to a number of databases that will support this program such as the ACM Digital Library, IEEE/IEE Electronic Library, and CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library. For more examples, please see our list of databases in Computing Science.
No further Bibliographic tools will be required.
Monographs
Relevant Subject headings related to this program and the SFU library's holdings are as follows. The first number are the holdings across all three SFU Libraries, and numbers in parentheses ( ) are holdings at SFU Surrey.
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing 440 (149)
Computer architecture 472 (176)
Computer networks 821 (269)
No additional monographs required to support this course.
Total costs for CMPT 404 & 431: $886/year
Total cost to the department: $0