Time: Tuesday/Thursday 11am-12:15pm,
Room: 209 Featheringill
Hall
Instructor: Yuan Xue (
), Office:
383 Jacobs Hall, Phone: 615-322-2926
Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday
3pm-4pm; or by appointment.
TA: Yanchuan Cao
(yanchuan.cao@vanderbilt.edu)
Web:
http://vanets.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~xue/cs291fall06/index.html
Course description:
This course provides an introduction to the
principles and practice of network security. Topics include: security threats
in networks, principles for providing security mechanisms (cryptography, key
management, message authentication), practice of securing systems (PGP, IPsec,
SSL), and recent research topics in security.
Credit: 3 credit hours
Prerequisite:
The course requires a background in
computer networks (e.g. cs283 or equivalent) and programming experience (e.g.,
cs201 or cs270 or equivalent).
Text book:
[WS] Cryptography and Network Security:
Principles and Practice (2nd Edition) by William Stallings
Reference books:
[KPS] Network Security: Private
Communication in a Public World (2nd Edition), by Charlie Kaufman, Radia
Perlman, Mike Speciner
[CSP] Security in Computing (3rd Edition),
by Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari
Lawrence Pfleeger
[MB] Computer Security: Art and
Science, by Matthew A. Bishop
)