| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Notes |
Reading |
Submission |
| 1 |
11/1 |
1. Course Overview
2. Network Security Principles |
1,
2
|
Intr. to Net Security
TCP/IP Primer
|
- |
| 2 |
18/1 |
1. Attacks and Hacker Tools
2. Firewalls
|
1,
2
|
Footprinting
Firewalls Tutorial
|
Project Selection |
| 3 |
25/1 |
Lab 1: Port Scanning and Packet Sniffing |
pdf
|
Packet Sniffing
Port Scan
|
Project Proposal |
| 4 |
1/2 |
1. Introduction to Cryptography
2. Review of Number Theory |
1,
2
|
History,
Cryptography
|
- |
| 5 |
15/2 |
1. Modern Symmetric-Key Ciphers
2. DES and AES
|
1,
2
|
DES,
AES
Public Key Cryptography
RSA,
Digital Signature
|
Lab1 |
| 6 |
23/2 |
Lab 2: Linux Firewalls |
pdf
|
Linux Firewall HOWTO
|
- |
| 7 |
1/3 |
1. Asymmetric-Key Cryptography
2. Integrity and Authentications
|
1,
2
|
Hash Functions
MD-5,
SHA-1
|
- |
| 8 |
8/3 |
Lab 3: Password Cracking and SSH |
pdf
|
Password Crackers
SSH
|
Lab2 |
| 9 |
15/3 |
1. Mid-Term test
2. Key Management
|
1,
2
|
PGP Tutorial
|
- |
| 10 |
22/3 |
1. Email Security: PGP and S/MIME
2. Internet Security Protocols: SSL and IPSec
|
1,
2
|
WLAN,
WEP
|
A1 |
| 11 |
29/3 |
Lab 4: SSL Server and Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|
pdf
|
SSL,
IPSec
|
Lab3 |
| 12 |
5/4 |
Ching Ming Festival Holiday
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| 13 |
12/4 |
Project Presentation
| - |
- |
- |
| 14 |
19/4 |
-
| - |
- |
Project Report,
Lab4 |