CS 772/872- Network Security: Concepts, Protocols and Programming

Fall 2012 -Wednesday 7:10-9:50pm
 Eng & CS 3316

Instructor

Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
  e-mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu
office phone: (757) 683-4512
office hours:  T & W 10:30 am – 1:30 pm
office location: 3315 Engineering  & Computational  Sciences Bldg

Textbooks

Required:

Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World, 2nd edition, 2002, C. Kaufman,  R. Perlman, and  M. Speciner, Prentice-Hall.

Supplementary:

Network Security with OpenSSL, 2002, J. Viega, M. Messier, and P. Chandra,  O'Reilly & Associates.

Cryptography Engineering, 2010, Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, and Tadayoshi Kohno, John Wiley & Sons.

Historical Perspective and Enjoyable to read:

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography , 2000, J. Simon Singh, Anchor Books, A devision of Random House, Inc.

Topics

CRYPTOGRAPHY.
Introduction to Cryptography.
Secret Key Cryptography.
Hashes and Message Digests.
Public Key Algorithms.
Number Theory.

AUTHENTICATION.
Overview of Authentication Systems
              Security Handshake Pitfalls.
Strong Password Protocols.

STANDARDS.
Kerberos
              PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
Real-time Communication Security.
              IPsec: AH,  ESP and  IKE.
SSL/TLS.

ELECTRONIC MAIL.
Electronic Mail Security.
PEM & S/MIME.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).

      OPEN SSL
             Command-Line Interface
             SSL/TLS Programming
             Symmetric Cryptography
             Hashes and MACs
             Public Key Algorithms

Lectures

Utilities

Demos & Source Code

Public_keys

PKI_Scripts & Certificates

Grading

Assignments:      40 %

First Exam:  Wed. Oct  17 30 %

Second Exam: Wed. Dec 12        30 %

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