Lecture would be offered if more than 5 students are registered.

If you are interested to attend the lecture, please send an email to: w.adi@tu-bs.de

Lecture slides: Check here:Slides A and B

Lecture title:              "Advanced Topics in Security"

Lecture's Language:   English
Prerequisites:             knowledge of the fundamentals of cryptology
Instructors:                 Lecture would be held jointly by
                                  Prof. Vassilis Prevelakis   (section-A)  and
                                  Prof. Wael Adi   (Section-B)

Lecture time: The lecture would be held in two blocks weekly until the end of winter semester

             Friday :      16:00 to 20:00
             Saturday:   09:00 to 13:00

Place:    Hans Sommer Str. 66, 38106 Braunschweig
              11th floor, Room 1111

Contents:

Section-A:

1. Network Security
        network threats (e.g. MAC layer)
        firewalls, intrusion detection, honeypots
        virtual private networks, security policy 

2. System Security
        threats (buffer overflow, race conditions, privilege escalation),
        classical access control,
        process containment (Virtual Machines, runtime enforcement, etc.) 

3. Software security
        secure design, run time security
        Privacy 

Section-B:

4. Advanced Security applications
               Voting Systems
               e-commerce systems
               Vehicular Security
               others ..

5. Recent topics in Cryptography
         Modern trends in cryptography
         selected contemporary topics and discussions 

Lecture slides

Examination: Oral exam, Time: in April 2011 TBD