Welcome to the Computer and Network Security Official Class Web Page! This page is maintained as a service to the students taking this course with Mr. Athar Mahboob.
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| Lecture Plan (pdf) |
| Lecture Notes and Study Materials |
S. No. |
Date |
Lecture Title |
Lecture Notes |
Supplementary Reading Material |
Homework / Lab Assignments/ Quizzes |
| 1 | 23/7 | Introduction to Computer Security | ppt, pdf | A Glossary of Computer Security terms | |
| 2 | 30/7, 6/8, 13/8 | Introduction to Cryptography and Encryption | ppt, pdf | Frequently Asked Questions document on Cryptography, Glossary of Cryptographic terms | Quiz 1, Solution to Quiz 1 |
| 3 | 20/8, 27/8 | Data Encryption Standard - DES and other Symmetric Block Ciphers | ppt, pdf | Quiz 2, Solution to Quiz 2 | |
| 4 | 3/9 | Public Key Cryptography and RSA Asymmetric Encryption Algorithm | ppt, pdf | An introduction to Public Key Cryptography by IPlanet | |
| 5 | 10/9 | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange | ppt, pdf | Quiz 3, Solution to Quiz 3 | |
| 6 | 17/9 | Cryptographically Strong Pseudorandom Number Generators - CSPRNG | ppt, pdf | ||
| 7 | 26/9 | Message Authentication using Message Digests and MD5 and Digital Signatures | ppt, pdf | RFC 1321 | Quiz 4, Solution to Quiz 4 |
| 8 | 1/10 | Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) | ppt, pdf | An introduction to SSL by IPlanet | |
| 9 | 8/10 | IP Security | ppt, pdf | ||
| 10 | 8/10 | Electronic Mail Security and PGP | ppt, pdf | ||
| 11 | 19/10 | Firewalls | ppt, pdf | NIST Firewall Book and a Glossary of Firewall related terms | Midterm Test |
| 12 | 19/10 | Virtual Private Networks - VPN | ppt, pdf | ||
| 13 | 21/10 | Computer Viruses | ppt, pdf | Glossary of Virus related terms, Political Viruses | |
| 14 | 21/10 | Fault Tolerance and RAID | ppt, pdf | ||
| 15 | 22/10 | Data Backups, UPS Systems | ppt, pdf | ||
| 16 | 22/10 | Windows NT Security | ppt, pdf | ||
| 17 | 22/10 | UNIX/Linux Security | ppt, pdf | ||
| 18 | 22/10 | Miscellaneous Topics (User Authentication, Intrusion Detection, Key Management) | ppt, pdf | Quiz 5, Solution to Quiz 5 |
| Software Tools |
| Grades and Old Exams |
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