CPSC 557 / 601.96 - Winter 2005

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Unofficial final grades are available here here. Please notify Prof. Jacobson of any recording errors as soon as possible.

You may pick up your graded Assignment 4, term test, and reseach projects from the front CPSC office.

April 20 - Due to popular demand, I will accept electronic submissions of the report by midnight. Please bring a hard copy to me as soon as you can after that.
April 18 - Please hand in a hard copy of your research reports to me in my office before 16:30 on Wednesday, April 20.
April 18 - PDF slides of Kjell Wooding's guest lecture can be found on the "handouts" page.
April 8 - The deadline for the written part of Assignment 4 has been extended to Wednesday, April 13. Hard copies of the assignment must be in the drop-box by 4:00 PM.
April 7 - The deadline for the research projects has been extended to Wednesday, April 20.
March 30 - There will be a conference on April 21 in downtown Calgary on "Privacy: Are People Ready to Fight Back?". If you are interested in attending, CISaC will cover the $60 early registration fee. Please register online through the conference registration page, indicate in the "comments" section that you are a CPSC 557 or CPSC 601.96 student and let me know via email that you have done so. Note that the deadline for early registration is April 8 - after that the fee goes up to $100, and you will have to pay the $40 difference.
March 30 - Schedule for the remainder of the course:
- April 1,4,6 - lectures
- April 8 - Student presentation by Shantha Ramachandran on "Security Issues Surrounding RFIDs and their Possible Solutions"
- April 11 - Student presentation by Andy Chan on "Next Generation DVD Encryption Schemes"
- April 13 - Student presentation by Andrew Zakaluzny on "Secure GPS Communications"
- April 15 - term test (in class)
March 11 - Final written reports are due on Friday, April 15.
March 28 - A sample term test has been posted on the "handouts" page.
March 24 - Assignment 4 has been posted. A list of scans the TA may perform for Problem 7 can be found on the "handouts" page. The lab in MS 139 should be accessible by later this afternoon. Let me know if there are any problems, in particular if the lab is not accessible by monday. Sign-up sheets for demo times will be circulated during the lecture on Monday, March 28.
March 23 - Two sample project proposals have been posted on the "handouts" page.
March 16 - The deadline for A3 has been extended to Monday, March 21 at 4:30.
March 4 - The deadline for the project proposal has been extended to Monday, March 7 at 4:30. Please hand the proposals in to Prof. Jacobson directly (slip them under my door if I'm not in my office).
March 2 - A reference implementation of AES for use with Assignment 3 has been posted on the "handouts" page.
March 2 - Two simple client/server programs illustrating the use of sockets for message passing have been posted on the "handouts" page. Compilation instructions and detailed explanatory comments can be found in the source code, but please contact Andreas ((hirt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)) if you have additional questions. Note that the server program must be started before the client program for this example to work properly. Finally, a link to a good tutorial on programming with sockets has been added to the "external pages" page.
Feb 28 - Assignment 3 is posted (due Friday, March 18 by 4:30 PM).
Feb 18 - A sample solution to Assignment 1, Question 5 has been posted on the "handouts" page.
Feb 9 - Assignment 2 is posted (due Monday, Feb 28 by 4:30 PM). The driver program and the required timer class files be found on the "handouts" page.
Jan 20 - The TA, Andreas Hirt (hirt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) will have office hours Thursdays from 15:00 to 16:00 in ICT 624B.
Jan 20 - A description of the research project can now be found on the "handouts" page.
Jan 20 - A small correction has been made to Assignment 1. The second parameter of the sign_file function in the specification should be of type unsigned char **, and in line 94 of the driver program, signature should be declared as type unsigned char *. The posted version of Assignment 1 and the driver program have both been updated to reflect this correction.
Jan 14 - Please note the following modification to the assignment handin proceedure. Hand in hard copies of your assignments in the CPSC 557 assignment box (2nd floor MS) by 16:00 on the due date.
Jan 14 - The TA's office hours and location are posted on the "practical info" page.
Jan 14 - Assignment 1 is posted (due Friday, Feb 4 by 4:30 PM). The driver program and the timer class files for A1 problem 5 can be found on the "handouts" page.
Jan 4 - A simple example program using the number theory C++ library NTL can be found on the "handouts" page.

Tentative Course Schedule

Week Topic Course Work

10/01 Introduction and motivation (Ch 1 Stallings); OSI security architechture, weaknesses of "textbook" public-key cryptography 14/01 Assignment 1 set

17/01 Mechanisms for data integrity (Ch 11,12 Stallings); message authentication codes, hash functions, security, examples (SHA-1, CBC-MAC, HMAC) NA

24/01 Random numbers and OAEP (Ch 7 Stallings); pseudorandom number generation (ANSI X9.17), cryptographically secure random bit generators (Blum-Blum-Shub), plaintext-aware public-key encryption (RSA-OAEP) NA

31/01 Key management (Ch 7,14 Stallings) ; key distribution centers, public-key infrastructures, ID-based cryptography 04/02 Assignment 1 due; Assignment 2 set

07/02 Authentication (Ch 13 Stallings); basic mechanisms, authenticated key agreement (variations of Needham-Schroeder, station-to-station) NA

14/02 Access control (Ch 14 Stallings); password mechanisms and one-time passwords (S/KEY), SSH, Kerberos NA

21/02 Reading week NA

28/02 Secure email and web security (Ch. 15,17 Stallings); PGP and SSL (TLS) 28/02 Assignment 2 due; Assignment 3 set; 04/03 Research project proposal due

07/03 IPSec and virtual private networks (Ch 16 Stallings); Overview of IPSec architecture, Internet Key Exchange (IKE) NA

14/03 Guest lectures; March 14 - Kjell Wooding (Real World (in)Security) 18/03 Assignment 3 due; Assignment 4 set

21/03 Intrusion detection (Ch 18 Stallings); hacking methodology and techniques, theory of intrusion detection, systems NA

28/03 Firewalls (Ch 20 Stallings); introduction, usage NA

04/04 Student presentations 11/04 Assignment 4 due

11/04 Student presentations 15/04 Term test (in class); Research project due

Assignments:	PS:	1 - 2 - 3 - 4	PDF:	1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Solutions:	PS:	1 - 2 - 3 - 4	PDF:	1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Week	Topic	Course Work
10/01	Introduction and motivation (Ch 1 Stallings); OSI security architechture, weaknesses of "textbook" public-key cryptography	14/01 Assignment 1 set
17/01	Mechanisms for data integrity (Ch 11,12 Stallings); message authentication codes, hash functions, security, examples (SHA-1, CBC-MAC, HMAC)	NA
24/01	Random numbers and OAEP (Ch 7 Stallings); pseudorandom number generation (ANSI X9.17), cryptographically secure random bit generators (Blum-Blum-Shub), plaintext-aware public-key encryption (RSA-OAEP)	NA
31/01	Key management (Ch 7,14 Stallings) ; key distribution centers, public-key infrastructures, ID-based cryptography	04/02 Assignment 1 due; Assignment 2 set
07/02	Authentication (Ch 13 Stallings); basic mechanisms, authenticated key agreement (variations of Needham-Schroeder, station-to-station)	NA
14/02	Access control (Ch 14 Stallings); password mechanisms and one-time passwords (S/KEY), SSH, Kerberos	NA
21/02	Reading week	NA
28/02	Secure email and web security (Ch. 15,17 Stallings); PGP and SSL (TLS)	28/02 Assignment 2 due; Assignment 3 set; 04/03 Research project proposal due
07/03	IPSec and virtual private networks (Ch 16 Stallings); Overview of IPSec architecture, Internet Key Exchange (IKE)	NA
14/03	Guest lectures; March 14 - Kjell Wooding (Real World (in)Security)	18/03 Assignment 3 due; Assignment 4 set
21/03	Intrusion detection (Ch 18 Stallings); hacking methodology and techniques, theory of intrusion detection, systems	NA
28/03	Firewalls (Ch 20 Stallings); introduction, usage	NA
04/04	Student presentations	11/04 Assignment 4 due
11/04	Student presentations	15/04 Term test (in class); Research project due

CPSC 557 / 601.96 (Winter 2005) Applied Cryptography and Network Security

CPSC 557 / 601.96 (Winter 2005)
Applied Cryptography and Network Security