EE 5453 – Intro to Computer and Network Security – Spring 2020
Instructor:
Ram Krishnan
Microsoft President’s Endowed Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio
Instructor Website:
https://ceid.utsa.edu/rkrishnan/
Contact Info:
Email: firstName dot lastName at utsa dot edu
Also see instructor website above.
Syllabus, Course Info, Office Hours, Course Policies, etc.:
Click here.
Lecture:
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Location: MS 2.02.02
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM – 11:15 PM. Instructor office at BSE 1.518.
Tentative Schedule:
See syllabus.
Important Notice
- 02/28: HW #5 posted. Due Mar 6, 11:59 PM.
- 02/20: HW #4 posted. Due Feb 27, 11:59 PM.
- 02/11: HW #3 posted. Due Feb 18, 11:59 PM.
- 02/04: HW #2 posted. Due Feb 11, 11:59 PM.
- 01/28: HW #1 posted. Due Feb 4, 11:59 PM.
- 01/21: First day of class. Please read the syllabus.
Lecture Outline
We will cover a lot of ground using the whiteboard. Materials will be posted on Blackboard.
- Lecture 14 (03/05).
Topics covered: Hash function design, Sign and Encrypt vs Encrypt and Sign, HMAC. - Lecture 13 (03/03).
Topics covered: Signature, Hash functions. - Lecture 12 (02/28).
Topics covered: RSA - Lecture 11 (02/25).
Topics covered: ElGamal - Lecture 10 (02/20).
Topics covered: Prime fields, discrete log problem, Diffie-Hellman. - Lecture 09 (02/18).
Topics covered: Modular arithmetic. - Lecture 08 (02/13).
Topics covered: Confidentiality and integrity, intro to public key crypto, Diffie-Hellman. - Lecture 07 (02/11). Read the story about Crypto AG. Another story (video) on location data collection.
Topics covered: Multiple encryption, Integrity. - Lecture 06 (02/06).
Topics covered: Block ciphers. - Lecture 05 (02/04).
Topics covered: Block ciphers. - Lecture 04 (01/30).
Topics covered: Intro to symmetric key crypto. - Lecture 03 (01/28).
Topics covered: Intro to crypto. - Lecture 02 (01/23). No Face to face meeting. Assignment below.
Topics covered: Please review networking basics playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypH19whXTVoG3oKSuOcw_XeW - Lecture 01 (01/21).
Topics covered: Course overview. Please read the syllabus.