Internetwork Security

Course instructor

Sourav Mukhopadhyay is an associate professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has completed his B.Sc (Honours in Mathematics) in1997 from University of Calcutta, India. He has done M.Stat (in statistics) and M.Tech (in computer science) from Indian Statistical Institute, India, in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He worked with Cryptology Research Group at Indian Statistical Institute as a PhD student and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from there in 2007. He was a Research Assistant at the Computer Science department of School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He visited Inria Rocquencourt, project CODES, France and worked as a post-doctoral research fellows at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a post-doctoral research fellows and a part time Lecturer with School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland.

Course layout

 Week 1: Introduction to cryptography,  Classical Cryptosystem, Cryptanalysis on Substitution Cipher(Frequency Analysis ), Play fair Cipher, Block Cipher.

Week 2: Data Encryption Standard (DES), DES (Contd.), Triple DES, Modes of Operation, Stream Cipher, Pseudorandom Sequence.

Week 3: LFSR based Stream Cipher, Mathematical background, Abstract algebra, Number Theory.

Week 4: Modular Inverse, Extended  Euclid Algorithm, Fermat's Little Theorem, Eular Phi-Function, Eular's theorem, Quadratic Residue, Polynomial Arithmetic.

Week 5: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Introduction to Public Key Cryptosystem, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Knapsack Cryptosystem, RSA Cryptosystem.

Week 6: Primarily Testing, ElGamal Cryptosystem, Elliptic Curve over the Reals, Elliptic curve Modulo a Prime.

Week 7: Generalised ElGamal Public Key Cryptosystem, Chinese Remainder Theorem, Rabin Cryptosystem, Legendre and Jacobi Symbol.

Week 8: Message Authentication, Digital Signature, Key Management, Hash Function

Week 9: Universal Hashing, Cryptographic Hash Function, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), Digital Signature Standard (DSS), More on Key Exchange Protocol.

Week 10: Cryptanalysis, Time-Memory Trade-off Attack, Differential Cryptanalysis, More on Differential Cryptanalysis, Linear Cryptanalysis

Week 11: Solving discrete log problem, Algebraic Attack, Implementation Attacks, side channel attack.

Week 12: Internetwork Security, SSL, PGP, Cloud Security

Certification exam:

• The exam is optional for a fee. Exams will be on 23 April 2017.

• Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm

• Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.

• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

• The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

Certificates:

• Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score.

• 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 8 weeks course: Best 8 out of 12 assignments.

• E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT KHARAGPUR. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc