Internet Security

Catalog description

Upon completion of this course students will be able to: (1) understand the constructions of basic cryptographic primitives and protocols (e.g. private-key and public-key cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party protocols, etc.), learn to reason their security/insecurity and apply them to secure the internet; (2) learn how to construct secure authentication protocols; (3) learn the principles of designing secure protocols for the internet and its applications; (4) understand the constructions, strengths and weakness of the standard protocols deployed to secure the internet and its applications (e.g. IPsec, ieee 802.11i, Kerberos, pki, ssl/tls, set); (5) learn the techniques for defense against malware; (6) learn the techniques for defense against denial of service attacks; (7) learn the principles of designing secure protocols for e-commerce and other applications (e.g. secure payment, auction and voting).