Computer Security- Spring Term 2005
Instructor:Bill Kraynek Office: ECS 363
Office Hours:  Tuesday-Thursday 5:00-6:00; Thursday 7:45-8:30
E-mail:
kraynek@cs.fiu.edu Phone: 348-2034
Text:
Network Security by Kaufmann, Perlman & Speciner
Prerequisite: CDA 4101 and COP 3337

Syllabus    Outcomes   Grading     Grades    

Examples     Assignments   Cryptographic Links The Rijndael Animation Link

Announcements:

Grades are Posted

The PGP Power Point Slides.

The Web Security Power Point Slides.
See
this for an very interesting article .

The Project Assignment is posted on the Assignment Page.

The PGP Assignment is posted on the Assignments Page.

Exam One Grades are posted on the Grades page.

More links about SHA-1 flaw are Tech-Republic and Network World Fusion and ZDNet.

The second programming assignment and the reading/report assignment are now due on Tuesday March 29th at class time.

See this for news about SHA-1.

See this for a New York Times report on the new algorithm for determining if a number is prime. See this for the algorithm. See this for a site with lots of information about it. Note that even though the new algorithm is faster than the sieve method and it guarantees the number is prime, the Miller-Rabin test is still much faster and the error probability can be made as small as desired.

 Assignment Two is on the Assignments page.

The Report/Reading Assignment is on the Assignments page.





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