CS 416 - Network security and cryptography

Instructor - Prof Bernard L Menezes

Course Content: This course covers basics mathematical background for Cryptography, Different type of Ciphers , Secret Key Cryptography and attacks on it, Public Key cryptography and attacks on it , RSA , Cryptographic hash , Discrete Logarithms and applications , AES ( advance Encryption Standards) , Different type of authentications , protocols for authentication , Denial of service and Distributed Denial of service , session hijacking and spoofing, buffer overflow, Viruses worms and other malware , Intrusion prevention and detection.

Logistics : Three quizzes(15% each) , One end-sem(40%) and some assignments(15%)

Comments on Instructor: Prof Bernard teaches in a different way. He shows demos of the various attacks. The assignments is designed in such a way that they are solved practically. This way he ensures practical knowledge in his course as well.

Who will find it interesting: People who like to hack and so such stuff will find interesting. People who are attached with puzzles to solves and ciphers to decode and find the cryptography part very interesting.