Dr. Orest Pilskalns
Computer Security - CS 427
Spring 2008

 


Announcements:

       
grades

Office Hours:

        Monday and Wednesday 1:00 - 2:30


Power Point Slides:

       
       1. Introduction
       2. History of Cryptology

       3. Block Ciphers
       4. Finite Fields

       5. AES, Confidentially with Symmetric Ciphers
      
6. Prime Numbers & RSA
      
7. RSA Continued, Diffie Hellman
      
8. Message Authentication
       9. Hash and MAC Algorithms
      
10. Writing Secure Code
       11. Digital Certificates and Secure Email
       12. IPSec
      
13. Wireless LAN Security
       14. Firewalls
      
15. OCL
      
16. SSL and SET

Reading Assignments:

       
Week 1: Chapter 1,2
        Week 2: Holiday/Snow Days
        Week 3: Chapter 3
        Week 4: Chapter 4, 5
        Week 5: Chapter 7 8
        Week 6: 9
        Week 7: 10
        Week 8: 11
        Week 9: Midterm
        Week 10: Spring Break
        Week 11:
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        Week 12: 13.1-13.2, 14.2-14.3, 15.1


Important Links:

       1. Assignment Submission Site

 


Projects:

       
TBD

Assignments:

       Homework 1 (Due Jan 16, 2008) (Note problem 2. (a=1, b =2, ...)
       
Homework 2 (Due Jan 29, 2008)
       
Homework 3 (Due Feb 7, 2008) (Note problem 25. (only parts a and b)
       Homework 4 (Due Feb 20, 2008)
       Homework 5 (Due March 17, 2008)
       Homework 6 (Due March 27, 2008) (Stallings 12.4)
       Homework 7 (Due April 4, 2008)
       Homework 8((Due April ?, 2008)
       
Exams:
       

        Midterm - Wednesday, March 5 (Review)
       
Final Presentations -TBD
                             
Other Documents:

        Syllabus