Information Security

Spring Semester 2019 (252-0211-00L)

Overview

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Srdjan Capkun (Part I), Prof. Dr. David Basin and Dr. Esfandiar Mohammadi (Part II)

Assistants:
Part 1: Dr. Kari Kostiainen, Karl Wüst, Daniele Lain
Part 2: Sven Hammann, Karel Kubicek, Julian Roth, Valentin Anklin

Online discussion of course exercises can be found here.

The (optional) privacy Capture-the-Flag competition will take place on:
Saturday, May 25, 10:00-16:00 in HG D 3.2

The voluntary Q&A session will take place on:
Wednesday, August 21, 10:00-12:00 in CAB G 11

 

Exam viewing session will take place on:

  • Thursday, September 19, 10:00-12:00 in CNB F110
  • Friday, September 20, 10:00-12:00 in CNB F110

 

Lectures:
Thursday 13–15, CAB G 61
Friday 13–15, CAB G 61

Exercises:
Wednesday 15–18, HG F 26.5
Thursday 15–18, ML F 36

Credits: 8 ECTS (4V + 3U)

Requirements: None

Language: English

Description

This course provides an introduction to Information Security. The focus is on fundamental concepts and models, basic cryptography, protocols and system security, and privacy and data protection. While the emphasis is on foundations, case studies will be given that examine different realizations of these ideas in practice.

Exercise info

Part I

The weekly exercises will be published on the course webpage on Fridays. The purpose of the exercises is that students should attempt to solve them on their own. Master solutions will be published on Monday and the exercise sessions take place on Wednesdays and Thursday. At the exercise session the course assistants will explain the master solutions and discuss alternative solutions. The exercise sessions are expected to last 1-2 hours, depending on the number and difficulty of exercises that week. Exercises are not graded, but working on them and attending the exercise sessions is recommended. 

Part II

You can hand in your solutions to the exercises to receive feedback from the tutors. Solutions should be submitted by email to all tutors. Please put [InfSec] in the subject of the message and indicate which exercise session (Wednesday/Thursday) you plan to attend. Solutions must be received by 23:59 on the Monday after the exercise is published, in order to receive feedback.

Resources

Literature

  • Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996 (available online).
  • Dieter Gollmann: Computer Security, Wiley, 2000.
  • Matt Bishop: Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, 2002 (available online for ETH members).
  • Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Chapman & Hall, 2008
  • Charlie Kaufman, Rhadia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, 2nd Edition, 2002.
  • William Stallings: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.
  • William Stallings: Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards, 2nd Edition, Pearson, 2003.
  • Ken Thompson: Reflections on trusting trust (available online).
  • Wenbo Mao: Modern Cryptography: Theory & Practice, Prentice Hall, 2004.

Course Material

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