CPSC 599.49 / 601.96 - Winter 2004

News

Unofficial final grades are available here here. These are only accessible from the ucalgary.ca domain.

You may pick up your grades Assignment 3 and reseach projects from me in my office.

April 15 - There will be a conference on May 6 on "Making Privacy Work". If you are interested in attending, CISaC will cover the $60 early registration fee. Please register online through the conference registration page, and indicate in the "comments" section that you are a 599.49 student. Note that the deadline for early registration is April 23 - after that the fee goes up to $100, and you will have to pay the $40 difference.
April 14 - The deadline for submitting the research projects has been extended to Monday, April 19, 4:30 PM.
April 14 - Solutions to the term test have been posted on the "handouts" page. For grade appeals, please submit in writing a list of the questions you want remarked together with justification as to why your answer should receive more credit.
April 13 - A list of nmap scans you must be able to detect for your Assignment 3 demo has been posted on the "handouts" page.
April 5 - As indicated in the email, all students have access to an online tutorial on firewalls through Proware Computing. This tutorial is indended to provide supplementary material to the lecture notes, and the exercises at the end guide you through the installation and configuration of the ZoneAlarm personal firewall and the VisualZone log analyzer. Instructions for accessing this tutorial were included in the email, but note that your user id is your full cpsc email address (not user name).
March 26 - Schedule for the remainder of the course:
- March 29, 31 - lectures
- April 2 - Guest lecture (Brad Arlt - Security: It's not about cryptography)
- April 5 - lecture
- April 7 - term test (in class)
- April 12 - Student presentation by Heath Gerhardt on "Quantum Seals"
- April 14 - Student presentation by Jordan Kinney
- April 16 - Student presentation by Ian Wormsbecker on "Wireless Intrusion Detection"
March 11 - Final written reports are due on Friday, April 16.
March 11 - The in-class term test will be held on Monday, April 5.
March 11 - There will be two guest lectures next week: March 15 - Kjell Wooding (Real World (in)Security), March 17 - Tom Keenan (Ethics)
March 5 - A reference implementation of AES for use with Assignment 2 has been posted on the "handouts" page.
Feb 19 - The .c and .h files for the timer class required by the driver program for A1 problem 5 have been posted on the "handouts" page.
Feb 5 - The TA, Andreas Hirt (hirt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) will have office hours Thursdays from 14:00 to 15:00 in ICT 719.
Feb 3 - The driver program for A1 problem 5 and a simple example program using NTL can now be found on the "handouts" page.
Jan 30 - A description of the research project can now be found on the "handouts" page.

Tentative Course Schedule

Week Topic

12/01 Introduction and motivation (Ch 1 Stallings); OSI security architechture, weaknesses of "textbook" public-key cryptography

19/01 Mechanisms for data integrity (Ch 11,12 Stallings); message authentication codes, hash functions, security, examples (SHA-1, CBC-MAC, HMAC)

26/01 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)

02/02 Key management (Ch 7,14 Stallings) ; key distribution centers, public-key infrastructures, ID-based cryptography

09/02 Authentication (Ch 13 Stallings); basic mechanisms, authenticated key distribution (variations of Needham-Schroeder, station-to-station)

23/02 Access control (Ch 14 Stallings); password mechanisms and one-time passwords (S/KEY), SSH, Kerberos

01/02 Secure email and web security (Ch. 15,17 Stallings); PGP and SSL (TLS)

08/03 IPSec and virtual private networks (Ch 16 Stallings); Overview of IPSec architecture, Internet Key Exchange (IKE)

15/03 Guest lectures; March 15 - Kjell Wooding (Real World (in)Security), March 17 - Tom Keenan (Ethics)

22/03 Intrusion detection (Ch 18 Stallings)

29/03 Firewalls (Ch 20 Stallings)

05/04 Student presentations

12/04 Student presentations, Term test

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

CPSC 599.49 / 601.96 (Winter 2004)

Applied Cryptography and Network Security

Week	Topic
12/01	Introduction and motivation (Ch 1 Stallings); OSI security architechture, weaknesses of "textbook" public-key cryptography
19/01	Mechanisms for data integrity (Ch 11,12 Stallings); message authentication codes, hash functions, security, examples (SHA-1, CBC-MAC, HMAC)
26/01	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)
02/02	Key management (Ch 7,14 Stallings) ; key distribution centers, public-key infrastructures, ID-based cryptography
09/02	Authentication (Ch 13 Stallings); basic mechanisms, authenticated key distribution (variations of Needham-Schroeder, station-to-station)
23/02	Access control (Ch 14 Stallings); password mechanisms and one-time passwords (S/KEY), SSH, Kerberos
01/02	Secure email and web security (Ch. 15,17 Stallings); PGP and SSL (TLS)
08/03	IPSec and virtual private networks (Ch 16 Stallings); Overview of IPSec architecture, Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
15/03	Guest lectures; March 15 - Kjell Wooding (Real World (in)Security), March 17 - Tom Keenan (Ethics)
22/03	Intrusion detection (Ch 18 Stallings)
29/03	Firewalls (Ch 20 Stallings)
05/04	Student presentations
12/04	Student presentations, Term test