CSG 254 - Network Security

Schedule for Spring 2007

• Week 1 - 1/9:

  • Course overview

  • Review of cryptography

• Week 2 - 1/16:

  • Review of Networking

• Week 3 - 1/23:

  • [Introduction Lab Due]

  • Non-Crypto Security and Tools & Techniques

  • Authentication Protocols (I) - Basics

• Week 4 - 1/30:

  • Authentication Protocols (II) - Needham Schroeder, Otway Rees, etc.

• Week 5 - 2/6:

  • [Quiz 1, PS1 due]

• Week 6 - 2/13:

  • Authentication Protocols (III) - Weak Password, Hash Chains

  • Kerberos System

• Week 7 - 2/20:

  • [Quiz 2, PS2 due]

  • SSL/TLS; PKI

• Week 8 - 2/27:

  • [Labs Due]

  • IPsec/IKE

  • Worms, Viruses, DDoS

• Week 9 - 3/6:

  • SPRING BREAK

• Week 10 - 3/13:

  • [Quiz 3, PS3 Due]

  • Secure Multicast;

  • Secure Sensor Networks

• Week 11 - 3/20:

  • [Exam]

• Week 12 - 3/27:

  • Secure IM Design Presentation

• Week 13 - 4/3:

  • System Competition [Reports Due April 1st at 11:59 PM]

  • Secure IM [Code Freeze]

• Week 14 - 4/10:

  • Guest Lecture

• Week 15 - 4/17:

  • Secure IM Competition

• Week 16 - 4/24:

  • Competitions Presentation