CS 742-Foundations of Network Security and Cryptography

Basic Information

Course Code: CS 742
Course Name: Foundations of Network Security and Cryptography
Course Offered In: 2023-‘24
Semester Season: Autumn
Instructors: Kameswari Chebrolu
Prerequisites: No hard pre-requisites A bit of networks background makes it easier
Difficulty (1 being easy and 5 being tough): 4

Course Content

Pre-midSem is mostly cryptography. Topics include symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography, hashes, MACs and cryptographic protocols. Post-midsem portion covers network security (attacks and prevention at different layers of the OSI model - ARP spoofing, Smurf attack, TCP session hijacking, DNS Pharming etc), and web security.

Feedback on Lectures

Lectures were a good supplement to the slides

Feedback on Evaluations

4 quizzes (best 3 were considered), 1 midsem, 1 endsem. The course had an accompanying lab component (4 optional labs spread throughout the semester) and oe final compulsory lab endsem. Evaluation was fair.