Week 13: Security

Goals:

Distinguish between three goals for security: privacy, authentication, and integrity.
Be familiar with the mathematical concepts behind private- and public-key encryption (but not all the gory details).
Understand the key distribution problem and mechanisms for dealing with it.
Be able to choose appropriate mechanisms to achieve elementary security goals.
Consider how some specific systems, notably PGP, use encryption to achieve their security goals.

Monday, April 27: Security (1)

Mr. Stone will guest lecture on security.

Read P&D 8.1 - 8.3 (pp. 586 - 613).

Submit an abstract on one of the following:

Stallings (Dec. 1998), Security Comes to SNMP: The New SNMPv3 Proposed Internet Standards. IPJ 1(3).
Patrikakis, Masikos, & Zouraraki (Dec. 2004), Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. IPJ 7(4).
The two recent articles on "A Decade of...", IPJ 11(2).

Mr. Stone will continue his guest lecture on security.

Read P&D 8.4 (pp. 613 - 626). You may also wish to review your earlier readings.

Created April 24, 2009
Last revised April 30, 2009