Fundamentals of Communication Security

40 Präsenzstunden Vorlesung, 20 Präsenzstunden Praktikum, 35 Stunden Vor-/Nachbereitung der Praktika, 55 Stunden Nachbereitung der Vorlesung und Prüfungsvorbereitung

no prerequisites

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will have the knowledge and ability to ensure communication security using modern cryptographic techniques to design new secure services of Internet applications.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Conventional Encryption
3. Rotor Machines and Breaking the Enigma
4. Breaking the Lorenz
5. Data Encryption Standard (DES)
6. Modular Arithmetic
7. Public Key Distribution Algorithm
8. Factoring-based Cryptosystem-RSA
9. Discrete-Logarithm-based Cryptosystems-ElGamal
10. Secret Sharing
11. Key Recovery (Escrow)
12. Digital Certificate and X.509
13. Security in Wireless Communications: GSM and CDMAOne
14. Security in Wireless Communications: UMTS and CDMA2000
15. Security in Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11i
16. Secure Electronic Transaction (SET), DigiCash, eCheck, eStamp
17. Secure Email-PGP Design
18. Secure Web Application-SSL

Beamer and Whiteboard

William Stallings. 2010. Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (5th ed.). Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA.