Spring 2017

Syllabus is available.  Presentations and homework will be posted throughout the semester.  In addition, all material will be posted on HuskyCT.

Materials:

Lectures Slides:

• Lecture 01: Introduction, Security Mindset
• Lecture 02: Symmetric Cryptography, Block Ciphers
• Lecture 03: Public Key Cryptography, RSA
• Lecture 04: Diffie Hellman, Digital Signatures, Hash Functions
• Lecture 05: Certificates and PKI
• Lecture 06: Authentication
• Lecture 07: Overview of Network Security
• Lecture 08: WEP and its weaknesses
• Lecture 09: WPA, improved wireless security
• Lecture 10: IPSec
• Lecture 11: IPSec Part II
• Lecture 12: BGP and RPKI
• Lecture 13: BGPSec
• Lecture 14: TLS
• Lecture 15: TLS Part II
• Lecture 16: TLS Attacks
• Lecture 17: TLS Attacks Part 2
• Lecture 18: DNS
• Lecture 19: DNS Attacks
• Lecture 20: DNSSec
• Lecture 21: Bitcoin
• Lecture 22: Blockchain
• Lecture 23: DoS
• Lecture 24: Firewalls and IDS
• Lecture 25: Worms
• Lecture 26: Review

Projects:

• Project 1: Applied Cryptography and Certificates
• Project 2: Web forms and password cracking
• Project 3: Wifi Sniffing
• Project 4: TLS Man-in-the-middle
• Project 5: Effectiveness of RPKI
• Project 6: CBC Padding Oracle