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

INSTRUCTOR:

  Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
  e-mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu
  offfice phone: (757) 683-4512
  office hours:  T 2-4 pm & W 2-4 pm
  office location: 249-4 Education Building

TEXTBOOKS

• Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World,  2nd edition, 2002,  C. Kaufman,  R. Perlman, and  M. Speciner, Prentice-Hall.
• Network Security with OpenSSL, 2002, J. Viega, M. Messier, and P. Chandra,  O'Reilly & Associates.

Supplementary texts:

• Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition, 1996,  B. Schneirer,  John Wiley & Sons. onlline
• SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems, 2001, E. Rescorla, Addison Wesley.

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

Source Code
PKI_Scripts

Public_keys
PKI_Certificates
 
 

Lectures

GRADING

• Assignments:                           25%
• Project:                                     25 %
• First Exam: (March    3)       25 %
• Second Exam: (May 5)           25 %