Lecture: Information Security 2009

Announcements

• The exam will take place on Friday, Aug 14, 2009 from 9:00 to 12:00 (180 minutes) in ETA F5. This is a closed book exam (no books, notes, electronic devices etc. allowed).
  
• On Wed May 6 and Thu May 7 (at 16-18 as usual), we will have lab sessions with the Scyther protocol verification tool. The location is CAB E 37/38.
  
• The course starts in the first week of the semester. Thus, the first lecture is on Monday, February 16th, 2009.
• The exercise sessions will also start in the first week! Yet, only exercise sessions in IFW A32.1 will take place in the first week. Starting from Wednesday, February 25th, there will be courses in both IFW A32.1 and IFW A34.
  

Course Material

Course Material (Login with your nethz username/password.)

Overview

Resources

Links:

• Scyther tool and semantics: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/scyther/index.html
• Professor William T. Tutte: http://frode.home.cern.ch/frode/crypto/tutte.html

Literature:

• Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996 (available online).
• Dieter Gollmann: Computer Security, Wiley, 2000.
• Matt Bishop: Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, 2002 (available online for ETH members).
• William Stallings: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002.
• William Stallings: Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards (2nd Edition), Pearson, 2003.
• Ken Thompson: Reflections on trusting trust (available online).
• Wenbo Mao: Modern Cryptography: Theory & Practice, Prentice Hall, 2004.