FCS 742 - Network Security
Fall, 2004

Prof. Ping Ji
Class Schedule

Date Topics covered (or comments) Notes  Readings  
 Lec 1, 9/2   Course overview, Introduction on computer networks   slides overview, network intro   Kurose & Ross, Ch 1
 Lec 2, 9/9   Application layer protocols   slides  Kurose & Ross, Ch 2
 9/16   School Close - NO CLASS    
 Lec 3, 9/23   Transport Layer, TCP (a)   slides   Kurose & Ross, Ch 3.1 - 3.5
 Lec 4, 9/30   TCP/IP   slides   Kurose & Ross, Ch 3.5 - 4.4
 Lec 5, 10/7   Network Routing Protocols   slides   Kurose & Ross , Ch 4.4 - 4.6
 Lec 6, 10/14   Cryptography - Symmetric Cipher   slides   Stallings , Ch 1 - 3, Ch 5
 Lec 7, 10/21   Key management, Public Key Cryptosystem   slides   Stallings, Ch 7, 9, 10
  Diffie and Hellman, "New Directions in Cryptography",1976
 Lec 8, 10/28   Digital Signature, Message Authentication   slides   Stallings, Ch 11, 13, 14
 Lec 9, 11/4   Email Security, IPSec   slides   Stallings, Ch 15, 16
 Lec 10, 11/11   IPsec (cont.), SSL, SET   slides     Stallings, Ch 17
 Lec 11, 11/16  IN-CLASS EXAM (Thursday classes meet)    
 Lec 12, 11/18   Denial of Service attack, A case study on counter DOS attack   slides  
Online resources in slides,
"SOS: Security Overlay Service" Keromytis et.al., SIGCOMM 02
"Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications", Stoica et.al, SIGCOMM 01
  11/25   Holiday - NO CLASS    
 Lec 13, 12/2   Worms and Virus, A case study on worm-defense   slides  
Stallings, Ch 19
"Shield: Vulnerability-Driven Network Filters for Preventing Known Vulnerability Exploits" Wang, et. al, SIGCOMM 04
 Lec 14, 12/9     slides  
 12/16   IN-CLASS FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS   slides