Information Security

Weekly outline

• General
  

  General

  • Announcements Forum
• Introduction to Information Security
  

  Introduction to Information Security

  - Security concerns: Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication, Availability and Authorization

  - Aspects of Information Security

  - Course overview

  - Modular arithmetic
• Symmetric Cryptography
  

  Symmetric Cryptography

  - Introduction to Cryptography

  - Basics of symmetric cryptography

  - Historical ciphers

  - Stream ciphers:

  + A5/1

  + RC4

  - Block ciphers:

  + Feistel cipher

  + DES

  + AES

  + Mode of operation

  + Increasing security of block ciphers
• Asymmetric Cryptography - Public key Cryptography
  

  Asymmetric Cryptography - Public key Cryptography
• Digital Signature and Hash function
  

  Digital Signature and Hash function
• Message Authentication Codes and Key Establishment
  

  Message Authentication Codes and Key Establishment