EE6032: Comms

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• EE6032 Comms Security Protocols
• General Information
• Professor Tom Coffey
• Jan 2009

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• General information
• Lecturer Professor Tom Coffey
• Email tom.coffey_at_ul.ie
• Web page
• http//www.ecestudents.ul.ie/
• MEng INsec
• ModuleEE6432
• Semester 15 weeks
• Examinations weeks 14 15
• Module Assessment
• End of semester examination 70
• Continuous Assessment (Class assignments) 30

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Recommended Textbooks
W.Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security,
4th Edition Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2006. C.
Boyd and A.Mathuria, Protocols for Authentication
and Key Establishment. Springer, 2003 Russel
Dean Vines, Wireless Security Essentials.
Defending Mobile Systems from Data Piracy. Wiley,
2002.
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• EE6032 Outline Syllabus
• Security Services
• Role of security services in countering network
  attacks
• Cryptographic components
• Public key infrastructures
• Security Protocols
• Security protocol design
• Use of formal methods for evaluation of
  correctness of security of protocols.
• Wireless Internet Security Standards

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• EE6032 Class Assignments
• Students are asked to take One project from a
  selected list. Student should prepare a technical
  paper of 6 pages max (.doc or html ) on the
  operation of, or developments in, the selected
  topic.
• Student should also prepare a brief presentation
  (4 slides max -in PowerPoint or PDF format)
  emphasizing the main issues in the paper. Each
  student will be asked to make a short
  presentation using presentation slides in week
  12 of term.
• An electronic copy of the technical paper and
  Presentation slides should be submitted by email
  to tom.coffey_at_ul.ie, no later than week 11
  (12-04-2009) of term.
• The main purpose of the project is to aid student
  learning and development of a research
  methodology !!!
• Students will be judged on effort, progress and
  degree of learning demonstrated.

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• EE6032 Class Assignments (ii)
• Technical Paper
• Paper Structure ltpaper titlegt, lt authors
  namegt, lt IDgt, ltabstract ( max 50 words)gt,
• ltbody of papergt, ltlist of referencesgt
• No of pages 6 (max)
• Paper Format Two columns, font size 12,
  single-line spacing. )
• PowerPoint Slide Presentation of Paper
• 4 slides (max)
• Submission
• Email to tom.coffey_at_ul.ie.
• Submission Deadline
• Week 11 (12th April, 2009).
• Date for student Presentation of paper
• To be announced

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• EE6032
• 2009 Class Assignments Topics
• Survey of Electronic Voting Systems
• Blind Signatures and their Application
• Handling Dispute Arbitration for Non-Repudiation
  Schemes
• A Practical Secret Ballot Voting Scheme for Large
  Scale Elections
• On-Line Electronic Voting over the Internet
• Preventing Man-in-the Middle attacks in Security
  Protocols
• Untraceable Electronic Mail
• Secure User Identification using smart cards
• Zero-Knowledge Protocols for User Identification
• Comparative Analysis of Hashing Algorithms
  suitable for Wireless Applications

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• EE6032
• 2009 Class Assignments Topics
• Stream ciphers and their application in
  Wireless-networked devices
• The role of Penetration Testing in determining
  vulnerabilities in security applications
• Denial of service attacks in Wireless LANS
• Bluetooth ( peer-to-peer protocol) A security
  review
• A Security review of the Wireless Application
  Protocol (WAP)
• Secure Key management techniques for satellite
  communication systems
• Formal verification of security protocols using
  State-Space (or strand-based) techniques.
• Analysis of Access Control and Privacy Wired
  Equivalent Privacy (WEP) features for IEEE802.11
  Standard
• Data Storage security issues for Modern (Smart)
  Electronic Passports
• Secure remote access over the internet using
  IPSec
• Security Protocols and Services for IPV6
• Authentication and Confidentiality using IPSec
• Other Titles If you have another title which you
  wish to propose, please email me with Title and
  Abstract (25 words max ) of paper.