Lecture: Information Security 2010

Announcements

• The exam will contain 100 points on part I, and 80 points on part II.
• There will be no exercise sessions on May 12 and 13, 2010.
• There will be no lecture on Thursday, March 11, 2010.
• The simulation based reduction concept, as treated in the lecture, is considered part of the exam material. There will however be no complicated tasks on this concept in the exam and unless explicitly stated, you do not need to give a formal security proof using the simulation paradigm.

Course Material

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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.