Time and Place: Thursday 4:30~7:10PM at Horizon Hall 1010
Instructor: Dr. Xinyuan (Frank) Wang
Office: Room 5331, Engineering Building
Office phone: (703) 993-9461
Office hours: Thursday 3:00-4:20pm or by appointment
Email: xwangc at gmu dot edu
Teaching Assistant: TBD
Office hours: TBD
Email: TBD
The objective of this course to is provide comprehensive introduction to the network security problems, and the principles, techniques and their applications in securing network. We will focus on the Internet, and we will examine existing Internet security techniques and protocols and discuss about open problems in Internet security. Topics include secret key and public key cryptography, Hash algorithms, basic number theory, authentication, IPSEC/VPN, IPSEC key exchange, SSL/TLS, firewall, anonymous communication and VoIP seucurity. There will be programming assignments that involve authentication protocol implementation, examination and manipulation of raw packets..
ISA 562 and INFS 612 or CS 555
Java or C/C++ programming experience required.
Required: Network Security, Private Communication in a Public World 2nd Edition by C. Kaufman, R. Perlman, M. Speciner.
Reference: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 6/E by W. Stallings.
Relevant research papers for advanced topics will be included.
Assignments
30%
Midterm Exam Term Project
30%
Participation
10%
Assignments include paper homeworks and programming projects. The midterm exam is a closed book exam. The term project include a 15~25 minutes presentation in class and a final report of no more than 20 pages. The term paper could be:
· Research Paper
o You can work on original research problems. The outcome should be a paper with original technical contribution.
o Your grade on this will be judged on originality, soundness of the approach, and quality of presentation.
o Example Topics:
§ New Attacks to Well-Accepted Techniques or Standards
§ Wireless Security
§ Key Management
§ Denial-of-Service Attack
§ Intrusion Detection and Response
§ Intrusion Tracing
§ Information Hiding/Steganography/Watermarking
§ IPSEC/VPN
§ Firewall
§ Authentication
§ Access Control
§ Authorization
§ Worm & Virus Detection
§ etc.
· Survey Paper
o You can write a paper that surveys a particular field on information security. The outcome should be a paper that summarizes the trend in the field you have chosen. Your grade will be judged on the completeness of the survey, the quality of the trend analysis, and the quality of presentation.
o Example Topics:
§ New Attacks to Well-Accepted Techniques or Standards
§ Wireless Security
§ Key Management
§ Intrusion Detection and Response
§ Denial-of-Service Attack
§ Intrusion Tracing
§ Information Hiding/Steganography/Watermarking
§ IPSEC/VPN
§ Firewall
§ Authentication
§ Access Control
§ Authorization
§ Worm & Virus Detection
§ etc.
All assignments, term paper must be done individually by each student, unless explicitly required otherwise..
The final grades are computed according to the following rules:
· A+: >= 95%; A: [90%, 95%); A-: [85%, 90%)
· B+: [80%, 85%); B: [75%, 80%); B-: [70%, 75%)
· C+: [66%, 70%); C: [63%, 66%); C-: [60%, 63%)
· D: [57%, 60%)
· F: < 57%.
All students, including those who are taking the course online, are required to take the writen exam(s) at specified place, and present the course project on campus.
All students are required to follow all university, school and department policies regarding academic integrity. Violator of the Honor Code will result in a grade of F for the course, as well as any penalties imposed by the university and/or the CS department.
If you have a documented learning disability or other condition that may affect academic performance you should: 1) make sure this documentation is on file with the Office of Disability Services (SUB I, Rm. 222; 703-993-2474; www.gmu.edu/student/drc) to determine the accommodations you need; and 2) talk to the instructor to discuss your accommodation needs. All academic accommodations must be arranged through the ODS.