CS8792 - CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY (Syllabus) 2017-regulation Anna University

CS8792 - CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY (Syllabus) 2017-regulation Anna University

CS8792	CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY	LPTC

3003

OBJECTIVES:

• To understand Cryptography Theories, Algorithms and Systems.
• To understand necessary Approaches and Techniques to build protection mechanisms in order to secure computer networks.

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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 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