Security Protocol Analysis. 3 credits

Catalog description

Teaches how to design, understand, verify, and test communication protocols so they meet their objectives of recognizing the basic components of a communication protocol; specifying security properties accurately; modeling actors and mal-actors against which a protocol ought to be secure; discussing verification and testing methods and their limitations by ensuring that the specified protocol satisfies stated security objectives in the presence of specified mal-actions; designing a medium-size protocol that satisfies a specification of requirement; using existing tools to specify and verify security protocols; and testing protocols for satisfying their security objectives. Offered by Computer Science . May not be repeated for credit.