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CS8792 Cryptography and Network Security: Objectives

This document outlines the objectives and units of study for a course on Cryptography and Network Security. The course covers five main units: (1) an introduction to classical and modern cryptography techniques; (2) symmetric key cryptography including algorithms like DES and AES; (3) public key cryptography including RSA and Diffie-Hellman; (4) message authentication and integrity using techniques like hashing and digital signatures; and (5) security practices for email, IP networks, and web security as well as system security concepts. The course aims to help students understand network security fundamentals, threats, and apply cryptographic algorithms and authentication schemes to simulate applications.

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CS8792 Cryptography and Network Security: Objectives

This document outlines the objectives and units of study for a course on Cryptography and Network Security. The course covers five main units: (1) an introduction to classical and modern cryptography techniques; (2) symmetric key cryptography including algorithms like DES and AES; (3) public key cryptography including RSA and Diffie-Hellman; (4) message authentication and integrity using techniques like hashing and digital signatures; and (5) security practices for email, IP networks, and web security as well as system security concepts. The course aims to help students understand network security fundamentals, threats, and apply cryptographic algorithms and authentication schemes to simulate applications.

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CS8792 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY LT P C

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OBJECTIVES:

 To understand Cryptography Theories, Algorithms and Systems.


 To understand necessary Approaches and Techniques to build protection mechanisms in order to
secure computer networks.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Security trends - Legal, Ethical and Professional Aspects of Security, Need for Security at Multiple levels, Security
Policies - Model of network security – Security attacks, services and mechanisms – OSI security architecture – Classical
encryption techniques: substitution techniques, transposition techniques, steganography- Foundations of modern
cryptography: perfect security – information theory – product cryptosystem – cryptanalysis.

UNIT II SYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY 9


MATHEMATICS OF SYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY: Algebraic structures - Modular arithmetic-
Euclid‟s algorithm- Congruence and matrices - Groups, Rings, Fields- Finite fields- SYMMETRIC KEY CIPHERS: SDES –
Block cipher Principles of DES – Strength of DES – Differential and linear cryptanalysis - Block cipher design principles –
Block cipher mode of operation – Evaluation criteria for AES – Advanced Encryption Standard - RC4 – Key distribution.

UNIT III PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY 9


MATHEMATICS OF ASYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY: Primes – Primality Testing – Factorization –
Euler‘s totient function, Fermat‘s and Euler‘s Theorem - Chinese Remainder Theorem – Exponentiation and logarithm -
ASYMMETRIC KEY CIPHERS: RSA cryptosystem – Key distribution – Key management – Diffie Hellman key exchange
- ElGamal cryptosystem – Elliptic curve arithmetic-Elliptic curve cryptography .

UNIT IV MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION AND INTEGRITY 9


Authentication requirement – Authentication function – MAC – Hash function – Security of hash function and
MAC – SHA –Digital signature and authentication protocols – DSS- Entity Authentication: Biometrics, Passwords,
Challenge Response protocols- Authentication applications - Kerberos, X.509

UNIT V SECURITY PRACTICE AND SYSTEM SECURITY 9


Electronic Mail security – PGP, S/MIME – IP security – Web Security - SYSTEM SECURITY: Intruders –
Malicious software – viruses – Firewalls.
TOTAL 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

 Understand the fundamentals of networks security, security architecture, threats and vulnerabilities
 Apply the different cryptographic operations of symmetric cryptographic algorithms
 Apply the different cryptographic operations of public key cryptography
 Apply the various Authentication schemes to simulate different applications.
 Understand various Security practices and System security standards

TEXT BOOK:
1. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, PHI 3rd Edition, 2006.

REFERENCES:
1. C K Shyamala, N Harini and Dr. T R Padmanabhan: Cryptography and Network Security, Wiley India Pvt.Ltd
2. BehrouzA.Foruzan, Cryptography and Network Security, Tata McGraw Hill 2007.
3. Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Network Security: PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World,
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-046019-2

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