CS3760 Part 00: Preliminaries

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CS3760 Part 00Preliminaries

• Eimear Gallery
• e.m.gallery_at_rhul.ac.uk
• Portocabin 2 Telephone 414346
• Course originally designed by Prof Chris Mitchell
• Subsequently updated by Mrs Hilary Ganley

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Outline of course

• CS3760 is divided into the following topics
• Introduction
• Elements of cryptography
• Identity verification and biometrics
• Access control
• Personal Computer security
• Network security concepts
• Secure protocols for authentication and key
  distribution

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Outline of course

• The following case studies may also be included
• Risk Analysis
• Electronic Payment Systems (EMV)
• Java security
• Securing e-mail

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Recommended texts

• There are a rapidly growing number of books on
  Information Security.
• The main recommended text for this course is
• D. Gollmann, Computer Security, John Wiley
  Sons, 1999.
• Useful background
• C.P. Pfleeger, Security in Computing, 1997 (2nd
  edition).
• W. Ford, Computer Communications Security, 1994.
• Ross Anderson, Security Engineering, 2000.
• B. Schneier, Applied cryptography, 1996 (2nd
  edition).
• W. Stallings, Cryptography and network security -
  principles and practice, 1998 (2nd edition).

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Recommended texts

• A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschot and S.A.
  Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• http//www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

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Course material

• Notes on the main parts of the course will be
  made available electronically at
• http//isg.rhul.ac.uk/eimear
• Copies of all exercises will be available from
  the same site. Solutions will be made available
  at the end of the course.