Information and Network Security
Spring 2006
Overview:
Lecturer: Professor Trappe The Course Syllabus can be downloaded from here. Exams and Solutions
There will be two exams this semester. Exam 1 is scheduled for March 22nd, 2006. Exam 1 Solutions Exam 2: Has not been officially scheduled. Target time frame is last week of April. Supplemental Material
Starting March 27th, we will have a series of lectures using slides. 1. Information Theory Overview: Slides (Monday, March 27th) 2. Information Theoretic Security: Slides 3. Key Distribution: Slides 4. Security Protocols: Slides (Monday, April 10th. We will spend two days going over this material.) 5. Supplemental Reading Assignment, “Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols,” by Abadi and Needham Assignments:
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Computer Project 1: Build a Large Integer Math library for MATLAB. (Teams of 3) |
Due February 13, 2006 |
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Homework Assignment 1: From Chapters 2 and 3 |
Do not turn in homework, but definitely do the homework! |
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Computer Project 2: Implement Baby DES in MATLAB (Teams of 3/4) |
Due March 8, 2006 |
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Homework Assignment 2: Chapter 4, Problems 1, 3, 4, 7 |
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Homework Assignment 3: Chapter 6, Problems 1, 2, 8, 12, 23 Also, How would you find the first 3 digit prime? |
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Final Project: Search a memory dump to find hidden keys in order to decrypt an encrypted file. Project Description: here Memory Dump can be obtained from here Encrypted (GIF) file can be obtained from here Notes: The ciphterext file is an encrypted GIF file that was encrypted with AES using a 128 bit key in CBC mode with an IV of 0. |
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Homework Assignment 4: Download from here |
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Security Protocols Lecture, see slides above Supplemental Reading Assignment: Read the paper by Abadi and Needham Homework Assignment 5: Chapter 15, Problems 2, 5, 9, 10 |
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