CmpE 526 Operating System and Network Security, Spring 2005

Final Schedule of Presentations

 

Each presentation is 50 minutes, 3 presentations per day.

 

1.     UNIX/LINUX Security Issues: User accounts and the login process, password file entries, passwd command, passwords and password selection, password encryption and aging, initialization/startup files and directories, root account and superuser, su command, file protection: ownership and access rights, owners, group owners, user and group ids, read, write, execute rights on files and directories, access rights and permissions of new files, file encryption, set user id and set group id properties, effective user and group ids, chown, chgrp, chmod and related commands, system files and directories and their access control, process accounting, log files, break-ins, hidden files.
Betül Demiröz, 17.3.05

2.     Number Theory : Prime numbers, modular arithmetic, Fermat's and Euler's theorems, primality testing, Euclid's algorithm, Chinese remainder theorem, discrete logarithms.
Salim Eryiğit, 24.3.05

3.     Public Key Cryptography : Diffie-Hellman approach, public key cryptosystem model, principles of public key cryptology, RSA scheme, key management, Diffie-Hellman key exchange. number theory issues, elliptic key cryptography.
Ali Akkaya, Tansel Zenginler, 24.3.05

4.     Authentication and Digital Signatures : Requirements and functions, message authentication codes, hash functions, algorithms such as MD5, SHA, RIPEMD, HMAC. Digital signatures and DSS. authentication protocols.
Attila Yavuz, Evren Önem, 31.3.05

5.     Authentication Applications : Kerberos (algorithms and v4/v5 software). X.509, certificates, performance, problems, certification authorities, certificate software.
Reyhan Akdoğan, 31.3.05

6.     TCP/IP security:  IP security. DNS security, FTP/Telnet security, NIS/NFS security, SNMP security.
Demet Ayvaz, Esma Kılıç, İdris Yıldız, 7.4.05

7.     Web security: HTTP, SSL, JAVA security.
Mehmet Güveniş, Burak Duygulu, Oya Ünlü, 14.4.05

8.     2G-to-4G Cellular Systems. Wireless LAN Security.
Volkan Özadalı, Koray İnçki, 21.4.05

9.     Electronic Mail Security : PGP, S/MIME, PEM, SMTP and Sendmail.
Serdar Salı, 21.4.05, Bilge Beşkeleş, 5.5.05

10.  Firewalls and Intrusion Detection: Concepts, packet filtering, example commercial and public domain software. OS/Network Security Tools: Example commercial and public domain software tools.
Gökhan Aydın, Meltem Yıldırım, 5.5.05

11.  Intruders, viruses, worms, hacker tools.
Mehmet Bilgin, Bayram Kurumahmut, 12.5.05

12.  Security of Digital Money and Payment Systems : Principles, SET protocol and other protocols. Ayşegül Tüysüz, 12.5.05, Erdem İlhan, 26.5.05

13.  Security Issues of Other Operating Systems : Windows.
İbrahim Serim, 26.5.05

14.  Formal Methods, Modeling, Model Checking, Theorem Proving,Verification and Related Software Tools in Security
Ceyhun Kazel, Çağrı Çakır, 26.5.05