ELEN689/CPSC689 Topics in Network Security

    Instructors:
    A.L. Narasimha Reddy, email:reddy @ ee.tamu.edu, phone:845-7598
    Riccardo Bettati, email:bettati @ cs.tamu.edu, phone:845-5469
    Andreas Klappenecker, email:klappi @ cs.tamu.edu, phone:458-0608
    Class Hours:
    Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:35AM - 10:50 AM.
    Office hours:
    TBD
    Class Room:
    223D Zachry
    Office Hours:
    Reddy: 11 -12 noon Tuesday, 4-5PM Thursday
    Klappenecker: 1:45-2:45 PM Monday, 11-12 noon Tuesday
    Bettati: 11 - 12 noon Thursday
    Textbook:
    No Textbook. Reading material for each lecture pointed out
    Course outline
    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:
    Homeworks 25%, Project 40%, Class Presenation 25%, Class Participation 10%

    Project guidelines
    NEW!!! NEW!!! Project now due on 6th May 10:00AM.
    NEW!! NEW!!! See Guidelines for writing project report
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Tentative Schedule -subject to change
Lecture Date Topic Reading Comments
1 Jan. 20 Intro. to Networking Security pdf Stallings Chap. 1
2 Jan. 22 Denial of service attacks and Impact pdf Class notes
3 Jan. 27 Cryptography basics pdf Classnotes
4 Jan. 29 More on Encryption pdf Classnotes
5 Feb. 3 Cryptanalysis pdf Classnotes
6 Feb. 5 Hashing pdf
7 Feb. 10 Public key encryption pdf HW1 posted Hw1 Encrypt source code
8 Feb. 12 DOS attacks pdf HW1 Encryption site1 Class Presentations List
9 Feb. 17 Measurement pdf
10 Feb. 19 More on Measurement pdf
11 Feb. 24 IP traceback pdf
12 Feb. 26
13 Mar. 2 Traffic analysis 1 pdf
14 Mar. 4 Traffic analysis 2 pdf Presentation Groups Guidelines
15 Mar. 9 Worm propagation pdf
16 Mar. 11
17 Mar. 16 Spring Break
18 Mar. 18 Spring Break
19 Mar. 23 Presentation1 pdf Presentation2 pdf
20 Mar. 25 Presentation3 pdf Presentation4 pdf
21 Mar. 30 Presentation5 pdf Presentation6 pdf
22 Apr. 1 Presentation7 pdf
23 Apr. 6 Presentation8 pdf Presentation9 pdf
24 Apr. 8 Talk in 302 HRBB 10-11AM
25 Apr. 13 Presentation10 pdf Presentation11 pdf
26 Apr. 15 Presentation12 pdf Presentation13 pdf
27 Apr. 20 Presentation14 pdf Presentation15 pdf
28 Apr. 22 IPSEC pdf
29 Apr. 27 SSL and SET pdf
30 Apr. 29 Guest lecture --Deepa Kundur Steganography