Course Title: Computers and Networks Security
Credits: 3
Instructor: Mukesh Singhal, Professor and Endowed Chair.
Tel: 257-3062.
E-mail: singhal@cs.uky.edu.
Office: Room 234 Hardymon Bldg.
Office Hours: 2-3pm TR (or by appointment).
Course Description
The following topics will be covered in roughly the given order.
1.Introduction: what is the problem?
2.Networking (levels, firewalls, sniffing)
3.Security models (military)
4.Encryption (types of attacks, uses of secret-key and public-key cryptography, uses of hash algorithms)
5.Algorithms (secret key: DES, IDEA, Rijndael, CBC, CFB, OFB, CFB; hashing: MD5, SHS; public-key: RSA, DSS)
6.Authentication (key distribution, passwords, addresses, cryptographic, certificates, nonces, Kerberos)
7.Pitfalls (security handshake attacks, performance problems)
8.Electronic mail (establishing keys, privacy, source authentication, message integrity, non-repudiation, PEM, PGP, X.400)
9.Public-key infrastructure (PKI)
10.Malware (viruses, worms, Trojan horses, service attacks, distributed denial-of-service, rootshell, repositories)
11.Legal, social and ethical issues (key escrow, export rules)
Prerequisites
A course in operating systems, some understanding of networks, some mathematical sophistication or the consent of instructor.
Examinations
There will be one in-class, midterm examination during the semester and a two-hour final examination. The date of the mid-term is October 31, 2006 (Tuesday).
Grading
A student's grade will be determined by a weighted average of homework assignments, mid-term examination, and the final examination. (Grading of homeworks is conditional on the availability of a grader for the course. In case homeworks can not be graded, each student will write a report on a topic in networks security which will be graded.)
Letter Grades: top 40% will get As, next 50% will get Bs, and the rest 10% will get Cs and Ds.Homework or report writing assignment: 30%
Midterm: 30%
Final Examination: 40%
Textbook
William Stallings
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practices
Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 4th edition.Papers from the literature