ELEN689/CPSC689 Topics in Network Security

    Instructor:
    A.L. Narasimha Reddy, email:reddy @ ece.tamu.edu, phone:845-7598
    Class Hours:
    Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:35AM - 10:50 AM.
    Office hours:
    Wednesday/Thursday 11 AM -12 noon
    Class Room:
    119C Zachry
    Textbook:
    Recommended (not required) Network Security Essentials by Stallings
    Reading material for each lecture pointed out
    Class Notes:
    Posted here on this web page. The notes are either developed by the course instructor or derived from the original copyrighted classnotes of the authors of different textbooks.
    Grading policy:
    TBD
    NEW!! NEW!!! See Guidelines for writing project report
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Tentative Schedule -subject to change
Lecture Date Topic Reading Comments
1 Jan. 17 Intro. to Networking Security pdf Stallings Chap. 1
2 Jan. 19 Denial of service attacks and Impact pdf Class notes
3 Jan. 24 Buffer overflow attacks & worms pdf Classnotes
4 Jan. 26 Rootkits pdf Classnotes
5 Jan. 31 DOS-Elephant flow containment pdf Classnotes
6 Feb. 2 Measurement techniques pdf HW1 handed out. HW1 Due February 23
7 Feb. 7 More on measurements pdf
8 Feb. 9 Measurements & IP Traceback pdf
9 Feb. 14 Automatic fingerprinting pdf
10 Feb. 16 Honeypots pdf
11 Feb. 21 Encryption Basics pdf
12 Feb. 23
13 Feb. 28 Public key cryptography pdf
14 Mar. 2 Key Distribution pdf Presentation Guidelines
15 Mar. 7 IPSEC pdf
16 Mar. 9 SSL and SET pdf
17 Mar. 14 Spring Break
18 Mar. 16 Spring Break
19 Mar. 21 Zhu Ye's guest lecture pdf
20 Mar. 23 Andreas guest lecture pdf
21 Mar. 28 Presentation1 Presentation2
22 Mar. 30 Presentation3 Presentation4
23 Apr. 4 Presentation5 Presentation6
24 Apr. 6 Presentation7 Presentation8
25 Apr. 11 Presentation9 Presentation10
26 Apr. 13 Electronic Cash
27 Apr. 18 Deepa Kundur guest lecture pdf
28 Apr. 20 Ellen Mitchell guest lecture pdf
29 Apr. 25 At Infocom
30 Apr. 27 At Infocom