Applied Crypto Group: Dr. Benjamin Dowling, Dr. Sikhar Patranabis.
Foundations of Cryptography Group: Bogdan Ursu, Nicholas-Philip Brandt.
Information Security Group: Dr. Jorge Luis Toro Pozo, Dr Dennis Jackson.
Network Security Group: Christelle Gloor, Joel Wanner
System Security Group: Karl Wuest
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will be conducted remotely using Zoom (https://ethz.zoom.us/). Please find further instructions on participating in the online sessions on the Moodle page.
NOTE: Due to the Zurich Festival holiday on 14/09/2020, the course will not begin until the lectures on 21/09/2020. Please find further instructions on the Moodle page.
Ideally, students will have taken the D-INFK Bachelors course “Information Security" or an equivalent course at Bachelors level.
Language:
English
Description:
This InterFocus Course will provide a broad, hands-on introduction to Information Security, introducing adversarial thinking and security by design as key approaches to building secure systems. This course will introduce key concepts from Information Security, both from attack and defence perspectives. Students will gain an appreciation of the complexity and challenge of building secure systems. The course is organised in two-week modules. In each module, a new concept from Information Security will be introduced. The overall scope will be broad, including cryptography, protocol design, network security, system security.
Literature:
Paul C. van Oorschot, Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography.
Course Material:
The lecture notes, exercises, slides, and other resources are available in Moodle. Please join us there!
Waiting List students can have guest access on the Moodle course page, allowing them read-only access to the course materials but unable to post to the forums. Such students will be required to enter a guest password. The password for our guest accounts are available in our secured area. Please log in at the top of this page! Note that you should be able to a access as guest with your normal nethz account. If you have trouble, try logging out of Moodle - trying to access the Moodle page again should give you the option to login to Moodle as guests.
