EECS 4760/5760—Computer Security

 

 

Documents

 

1)   SYLLABUS      

2)   IBM Intern Develops New Cryptography Algorithm   

                                         

 

Lectures

 

            8/26/09            Introduction, policies, procedures; decryption challenge presented.

            8/28/09            Chapter 1

            8/31/09            Chapter 2

            9/2/09              Chapter 3

            9/4/09              Chapter 5

            9/9/09              Details of RSA; “RSA Encryption,” by Tom Davis

            9/11/09            Example of RSA

            9/14/09            History of RSA; interest by U.S. Government

            9/16/09            Details of calculations using very large integers; factoring algorithms; goals of a Public Key Encryption

                                    (PKE) package.

            9/18/09            Podcast—www.grc.com/securitynow.htm;  Episode #34:  Public Key Cryptography

            9/23/09            Gnu GPG package

            9/25/09            Quantum Key Cryptography

            9/28/09            Review for exam

            9/30/09            1st Mid-Semester Exam

            10/2/09            Review Exam

            10/7/09            Chapter 6—TCP/IP

            10/9/09            Chapter 8—Routers, Proxies, and Firewalls

            10/12/09          Security Now #217:  “The Broken Browser Model”   (www.twit.tv)

            10/14/09          Estonia:  Case study of the first case of ‘cyberwar’, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3603943.stm; 

                                    http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1076805.html;  http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/65 

            10/16/09          Securing the DNS; YouTube Hijacking:  www.ripe.net/news/study-youtube-hijacking.html

            10/19/09          Continuing with IEEE Security & Privacy article:  “Protecting the DNS from Routing Attacks;”  network-level vs. application-level

“anycasts.”

            10/26/09          Chapter 8—Firewall Security

            10/30/09          Firewall topologies;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33382422/ ;  http://www.firewall.cx/firewall_topologies.php ; 

                                    http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/developer/howtos/network_topologies.html

            11/2/09            Chapter 9—Operating System Security

            11/4/09            Chapter 11—Security Audit Principles and Practices

            11/6/09            More on firewall topologies:  arranging firewalls in series vs. parallel.

            11/9/09            Chapter 10—Securing Operating Systems

            11/11/09          Veteran’s Day—no class.

            11/13/09          Tracking down Internet packets—Summary Information on Internet Packet Resources

            11/16/09          Summary of topics in preparation for Semester Exam #2; Chapter 12—Network and Server Attacks and Penetration

11/18/09          Extended summary of topics and review for exam.

11/20/09          2nd Mid-Semester Exam

           

 

Power PointTM Presentations

 

1)      Chapter 1

2)      Chapter 2

3)      Chapter 3

4)      Chapter 5

5)      Chapter 6

6)      Chapter 8

7)      Protecting the DNS

8)      Chapter 9

9)      Chapter 10

1)      Chapter 11

2)      Chapter 12

 

Assignments

 

            Assignment #1              Assigned 9/11/09; Due 9/18/09

            Assignment #2              Assigned 9/18/09; Due 9/28/09

            Assignment #3              Assigned 9/23/09; Due 10/14/09

            Term Project  (Term Paper)  Assigned 10/23/09

 

My Public Key

 

Decryption Challenge:  Decode the following ciphertext and email to me two parts:  a)  the plaintext 

and b)  a description of the encryption method.

 

            Ciphertext

 

            Hints:

 

            8/26/09            1a)   Carriage return/line feeds in the ciphertext are meaningless.

b)      All spaces in the plaintext were removed.

c)      All punctuation symbols in the plaintext were removed.

d)      The plaintext has only English words in uppercase letters.

9/2/09              2)     A fractionating cipher.

9/9/09              3)     Tripartite.

9/16/09            4)     Scrambled alphabet.

9/23/09            5)     Taken from a book.

9/30/09            6)     Book is not so recent.

10/7/09            7)     Book made into recent movie.

10/14/09          8)     Not exactly child’s play.

10/21/09          9)     J and J

10/28/09          10)   First word only of title.

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