Students acquire a comprehensive overview of information security. They'll learn the principles of modern cryptographic algorithms and security protocols.

1. History of cryptology, Steganography and digital watermarking
2. Symmetric-key Algorithms I - DES, 3-DES, AES, RC4
3. Symmetric-key Algorithms II - MARS, Serpent, Blowfish, RC6
4. Public-key Algorithms - RSA, El-Gamal, ECC
5. Hash functions - MD5,SHA-x,, RIPEMD-160, Whirlpool, Tiger
6. Authentication protocols (Kerberos, RADIUS, TACACS)
7. Ipsec
8. SSL/TLS,WTLS
9. Security in Wirelles Networks - 802.11, 802.15, 802.16
10. Security in GSM, UMTS
11. Digital signature, Certificate Authorities
12. Quantum cryptography
13. Patents, standards, laws and recommendations for data protection.

1. Initial excercise, BOZP, Google hacking
2. Individual project
3. Cryptanalysis of the monoalphabetic substitution ciphers
4. Individual project
5. Cryptanalysis of the polyalphabetic substitution ciphers
6. Individual project
7. Cryptanalysis of the transposition ciphers
8. Individual project
9. Lab.1 - Authentication in LAN using IEEE 802.1x framework
10. Lab.2 - VPN using IPsec
11. Lab.3 - VPN using SSL/TLS
12. Test
13. Assesment

[1] Menezes A, Vanstone S, van Oorschot P., Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996, volně ke stažení na http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
[2] Levický D., Kryptografia v informačnej bezpečnosti, elfa, 2005,ISBN:80-8086-022-X
[3] Mao W., Modern Cryptography - Theory & Practice, Prentice-Hall, 2004, ISBN: 0-13-066943-1
[4] Stamp M., Information Security - Principles and Practice, Wiley, 2006, ISBN: 0-471-73848-4

A7B01MCS - Mathematics for Computer Science

Evaluation of the course will be: 50% written exam, 50% individual project