Module: | Security Protocols and Infrastructures |
Module numbers: | 84.2022 [PVL 84.2023] |
Language: | english |
Study programme: | Bachelor dual KITS 2021 - Wahlpflichtkatalog ITS Bachelor dual KITS 2014 - Katalog ITS: IT-Sicherheit |
Type of course: | V+Ü+P = Lecture+Exercise+Practical |
Weekly hours: | 2+1+1 |
Credit Points: | 5 |
Exam: | written exam (with tasks from the bachelor KITS task catalog) |
Registering for exam | explicitly and independent of booking |
PVL (e.g. Practical): | not graded (Presenting solutions to given practical tasks) |
Frequency of offering: | each winter semester (not yet offered) |
Required knowledge: | IT Security; structured and analytical thinking. Further recommended: basic concepts and ways of thinking in the field of cryptography |
Learning objectives: | After this course the students
- have knowledge of the basic security goals in cryptography and its relevance to practical use cases.
- understand in which way well-known security protocols achieve the security goals.
- have a deep understanding of design principles of security protocols and security infrastructures.
- understand the key topics of the wide-spread security infrastructure standards and apply them to practical tasks.
- can evaluate the security properties of security protocols and infrastructures.
- are able to choose suitable protocols for a given use case.
- are able to analyze if a security protocol does have the zero-knowledge property.
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Content: | - Security goals
- Cryptographic and mathematical foundations
- Information Exchange Standards (e.g. ASN.1)
- Certificates and related standards (e.g. X.509)
- Security protocols for electronic ID cards (e.g. PACE)
- Network security protocols (e.g. TLS)
- Certificate-based security infrastructures (PKI)
- Zero knowledge protocols
- Advanced security protocols
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Literature: | - Bruce Schneier: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons
- ITU-T Study Group 17: Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) Recommendations
- RFCs on X.509 & TLS
- ICAO: Document 9303: Machine Readable Travel Documents
- BSI: TR-03110 Technical Guideline Advanced Security Mechanisms for Machine Readable Travel Documents and eIDAS Token
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Lecture style / Teaching aids: | Lecture + exercise + practical course / further reading |
Responsibility: | Alex Wiesmaier |
Released: | SS 2022 |