schedule

CNT5412 - Network Security - Spring 2025 - Schedule
	Date	Topic	Resources	Homework
Week 1	01/06	Logistics. Introduction: HTTPs and TLS, TLS cookie-cutter attack, DoS, IPSec	Logistics Slide 0
	01/08	Introduction, continued: Tor. Network attacks: TCP SYN Flood, TCP Reset Attack	Slide 1
	01/10	Network attacks, continued: TCP Hijacking, Reverse Shell, DNS Poisoning.	Slide 1	Lab 1
Week 2	01/13	Intro to crypto: classical ciphers, perfect secrecy and one-time pad.	Slide 2
	01/15	Review of probability theory	Scribe 2
	01/17	Discussion of Lab 1		Lab 1 due
Week 3	01/20	Martin Luther King Day
	01/22	Campus closed
	01/24	Campus closed		Lab 2
Week 4	01/27	Review of probability theory, continued.	Scribe 2
	01/29	Blockcipher: PRF, examples of PRF attacks, birthday attack.	Slide 3
	01/31	Blockcipher, continued: Applications of PRF in TCP, One-time password	Slide 3	Lab 2 due
Week 5	02/03	Blocipher, continued: Challenge-response protocol. Encryption: Syntax, ECB, CBC, CTR.	Slide 4	Lab 3
	02/05	Encryption, continued: Security notions (left-or-right, real-or-random). Practice: breaking CBC encryption in SSH.	Slide 4
	02/07	MAC: syntax, security definition, replay attack. CBC-MAC and extension attack	Slide 5
Week 6	02/10	MAC, continued: insecure variants of CBC-MAC, Encrypted CBC-MAC. MAC and PRF, Carter-Wegman paradigm.	Slide 5	Lab 3 due
	02/12	MAC, continued: attacks on secure variants of CBC-MAC. Authenticated encryption: motivation, syntax, attacks on CBC and its variants.	Slide 5 Slide 6	Hw1
	02/14	Review: practice attacks on encryption and MAC. Authenticated encryption, continued: breaking insecure variants of CBC, WEP cosntruction.	Slide 6
Week 7	02/17
	02/19
	02/21
Week 8	02/24			Hw1 due
	02/26
	02/28
Week 9	03/03
	03/05
	03/07
Week 10	03/10	Springbreak
	03/12	Springbreak
	03/14	Springbreak
Week 11	03/17
	03/19
	03/21
Week 12	03/24
	03/26
	03/28
Week 13	03/31
	04/02
	04/04
Week 14	04/07
	04/09
	04/11
Week 15	04/14
	04/16
	04/18
Week 16	04/21
	04/23
	04/25

CNT5412 - Network Security - Spring 2025 - Schedule