Information Security
Spring Semester 2018 (252-0211-00L)
Overview
Lecturers:
Prof. Srdjan Capkun (Part I), Prof. David Basin (Part II)
Assistants:
Part I: Dr. Kari Kostiainen, Dr. AbdelRahman Abdou, Karl Wüst
Part II: Dr. Lucca Hirschi, Dr. Marco Guarnieri, Sven Hammann
Online discussion of course exercises can be found here.
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
Announcements
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 solutios 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 example solutions and discuss alternative solutions. For the first part of the course the exercises are not graded, but working on them and attending the exercise sessions is recommended.
Exercise info (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 three 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.
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.
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
The lecture notes, exercises, slides, and other resources are available in our protected page secured area (log in at the top of the page first!).