Course Description: Various approaches to design, specification, and verification of security protocols used in large systems and networks. Topics of network security, security threats and countermeasures, communication security and basic encryption techniques, data confidentiality and integrity, analysis of cryptographic protocols, and access control in large systems and networks. Topics include:
Classroom: Chemical and Nuclear Eng. Building 2136, Tuesday, 5:30-8:15pm
Instructor: Dr. Edward Schneider
Phone/E-mail: (703) 845-6626 (Office) / Schneide@umd.edu
Class Web Site: http://www.ece.umd.edu/class/ents650/
Office Hours: By appointment.
Text: Stallings. Cryptography and Network Security, 5e. Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 978-0-1-3609704-4, 2011.
References:
PGP or GPG will be used for class communications. You should download it and send me your public key.
Grading: The grade for the course will be determined as follows:
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| Group Presentation, homework, and class participation |
15% |
| Midterm Exam (Take home, 8-15 March) | 40% |
| Final Exam (17 May) | 45% |
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