Office:Bryan 523
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays: 11:00AM-12:00PM |
| Wednesdays: 12:00noon-1:00PM |
Teaching Assistant:YiJian Li, liyijiankaka at gmail.com (Office hours: Thursday/Sunday 1-2PM)
All question about the labs, homeworks and mid-term exams 1 and 2 grading should be directed to the teaching assistant.
Course Description:
A comprehensive treatment of network security. Topics include virus, root kits, malware, TCP/IP security attacks, operating systems security, secret key cryptography, modes of operation, hashes and message digests, public key algorithms, authentication systems, Kerberos, Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), IPsec, Internet Key Exchange (IKE), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), e-mail security, virtual private networks, authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA), WiFi security, Domain Name System security (DNSSEC), intrusion detection systems.
Prerequisites:CSE 473S (Introduction to Computer Networking) or equivalent.
Credits:3 Units.
Time:Wednesday-Wednesday 1:00PM-2:30PM
Textbook: William Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice," 6th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2013, ISBN:0133354695. Please get the latest edition. Do not use older editions. If you use international edition, it should be dated 2013.
Audio/Video recordings of lectures from the last offering of this course are available: 2009 and 2011.
Tentative Schedule:
| # | Day | Date | Topic | Chapter |
| 1 | Monday | 8/25/2014 | Course Introduction | |
| 2 | Wednesday | 8/27/2014 | Security Overview | 1 |
| Classical Encryption Techniques | 2 | |||
| Monday | 9/1/2014 | Holiday - Labor Day | ||
| 3 | Wednesday | 9/3/2014 | Block Ciphers and DES | 3 |
| 4 | Monday | 9/8/2014 | Basic Concepts in Number Theory and Finite Fields | 4 |
| 5 | Wednesday | 9/10/2014 | Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | 5 |
| Block Cipher Operations (Part 1) | 6 | |||
| 6 | Monday | 9/15/2014 | Block Cipher Operations (Part 2) | 6 |
| Pseudo Random Number Generation and Stream Ciphers (Part 1) | 7 | |||
| 7 | Wednesday | 9/17/2014 | Class Cancelled | |
| 8 | Monday | 9/22/2014 | Pseudo Random Number Generation and Stream Ciphers (Part 2) | 7 |
| Number Theory | 8 | |||
| 9 | Wednesday | 9/24/2014 | Public Key Cryptography | 9 |
| 10 | Monday | 9/29/2014 | Exam 1 | |
| 11 | Wednesday | 10/1/2014 | Project Guidelines (Part 1) | |
| Other Public Key Cryptosystems (Part 1) | 10 | |||
| 12 | Monday | 10/6/2014 | Other Public Key Cryptosystems (Part 2) | 10 |
| Cryptographic Hash Functions (Part 1) | 11 | |||
| 13 | Wednesday | 10/8/2014 | Cryptographic Hash Functions (Part 2) | 11 |
| Message Authentication Codes (Part 1) | 12 | |||
| 14 | Monday | 10/13/2014 | Message Authentication Codes (Part 2) | 12 |
| Digital Signatures (Part 1) | 13 | |||
| 15 | Wednesday | 10/15/2014 | Project Guidelines (Part 2) | |
| Digital Signatures (Part 2) | 13 | |||
| Key Management and Distribution (Part 1) | 14 | |||
| 16 | Monday | 10/20/2014 | Key Management and Distribution (Part 2) | 14 |
| User Authentication Protocols (Part 1) | 15 | |||
| 17 | Wednesday | 10/22/2014 | User Authentication Protocols (Part 2) | 15 |
| Network Access Control and Cloud Security (Part 1) | 16 | |||
| 18 | Monday | 10/27/2014 | Network Access Control and Cloud Security (Part 2) | 16 |
| 19 | Wednesday | 10/29/2014 | Transport Level Security | 17 |
| 20 | Monday | 11/3/2014 | Exam 2 | |
| 21 | Wednesday | 11/5/2014 | Wireless Network Security (Part 1) | 18 |
| Project Guidelines (Part 3) | ||||
| Project Review Form (right-click and save link as or save target as) | ||||
| 22 | Monday | 11/10/2014 | Wireless Network Security (Part 2) | 18 |
| 23 | Wednesday | 11/12/2014 | Electronic Mail Security (Part 1) | 19 |
| 24 | Monday | 11/17/2014 | Electronic Mail Security (Part 2) | 19 |
| IP Security (Part 1) | 20 | |||
| 25 | Wednesday | 11/19/2014 | IP Security (Part 2) | 20 |
| 26 | Monday | 11/24/2014 | IP Security (Part 3) | 20 |
| Intrusion Detection | 22 | |||
| Wednesday | 11/26/2014 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 27 | Monday | 12/1/2014 | Malicious Software | 21 |
| 28 | Wednesday | 12/3/2014 | Final Exam |
Grading:
Exams: 60%
Homeworks: 15%
Project: 20%
Class participation: 5%
Students Hands-on Projects:
Student Survey Papers: