Other university all, Electrical & Electronics Engineering , Information Security Syllabus

INFORMATION SECURITY

CREDITS - 03

1.Introduction, CRYPTO BASICS : Classic Crypto, Simple Substitution Cipher,, Cryptanalysis of a simple substitution, Double Transposition Cipher, One time Pad, Project VENONA, Codebook Cipher.

2.SYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTO : Stream Ciphers, A5/1, RC4, B lock Ciphers, Fiestel Cipher, DES, Triple DES, AES.

3.PUBLIC KEY CRYPTO : Knapsack, RSA, Diffie Hellman, Uses for Public Key Crypto.

4.HASH FUNCTION :
AUTHENTICATION :Authentication Methods, Keys versus Passwords, Biometrics, Two Factor Authentication.
AUTHORIZATION :Access Control Matrix, Multilevel Security Models, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection.

5.SOFTWARE FLAWS AND MALWARE : Software Flaws, Malware, Miscellaneous Software Based Attacks.

6.OPERATING SYSTEM AND SECURITY : Operating System Security Functions, Trusted Operating System, Next Generation Secure Computing Base.

Reference Books :
1.Introduction to Computer Security by Bishop and Venkatramanayya, Pearson Education.
2. Cryptography and Network Security : Principles and Practice by Stallings, PHI.