Winter
2005

Security in Wireless Networks
(Seminar 2 SWS)

Instructor: Dr. Wolf Müller
Monday, 15:15 - 16:45, RUD 26, Room 1.308


Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group


 

 
Abstract: As a user of the Internet, you are fortunate to be tied into the world's greatest communication and information exchange - but not without a price. As a result of this connection, your computer, your organization's network, and everywhere the network reaches are all vulnerable to potentially disastrous infiltration by hackers. [W. Cheswick. Firewalls and Internet Security] 
Synopsis:
  • Seminar, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium.
  • 2h each week, over one semester (2 SWS).
  • Students will present a selection of papers that will help you understand which threats exist, judge their significance and learn methods to defend your system against hackers. In addition you will explore the mathematical underpinnings of today's most common security tools and protocols. But most of all you will learn that there is no absolute security - i.e. your will have to learn ways to detect security breaches and recover from them.

Credits:

  In order to obtain credits for this seminar, participants are expected to:

  • Attend regularly (at least 90%).
  • Read each paper before the seminar, to be adequately prepared for discussion.
  • Research an assigned subject; present major findings (45 min presentation; 30 min discussion).
  • Presentations will be evaluated by two members of the audience at the end of each class (Bewertungskriterien-Seminarvortrag.pdf).
  • Presenters summarize their presentation and relevant discussion on the Seminar's WIKI page within 2 weeks.
  • Presentations may be given in English or German. All documents are in English (exceptions may be granted).

Prerequisites:

  • This seminar is suitable for students of all technical science disciplines who have previously completed courses PI 1,2,3 or equivalent.

Wiki:

Syllabus:

   1. Attacks
 
   2. Secure Routing
 
   3. Key Management, Authentication
 

Presentation assignments:

Templates for presentation [Powerpoint], [OOImpress v.2.0]

Date Presenter Topic Slides
24.10.2005 Wolf Müller Administrative remarks [pdf]
31.10.2005 Wolf Müller Introduction [pdf]
07.11.2005 Habib Shakhawat Attacks: General [pdf]
14.11.2005 Robert Göttsch Attacks: Active [pdf]
21.11.2005 Stefan Jordan Attacks: Passive  
28.11.2005 canceled    
05.12.2005 Enno Gröper Secure Routing: Reviews [pdf]
12.12.2005 Lutz Lippke Secure Routing: Reaktiv [pdf]
09.01.2006 Knut Müller Key Manegement: Genaral [pdf]
16.01.2006 Marty Rosner Key Manegement: Distributed missing
23.01.2006 Chris Helbing Key Manegement: Resurrecting Duckeling [pdf]
30.01.2006 Johannes Fichte Key Manegement: Cryptobased Identities [pdf]
06.02.2006 Juan Luis Nunez Cabello Key Manegement: Keyestabishment Protokolls, Group Keys [pdf]
13.02.2006 Stefan Jordan Attacks: Passive [pdf]


Further Readings (Books):

  • Ross Anderson. Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. ISBN 0471389226
  • Bruce Schneier. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition. ISBN 0471117099
 Links
SAR WiKi
Security Engineering
Cambridge
 Ross Anderson's home page
NIH
Computer Security Information
NIST
Computer Security Resource Center
NIST
Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS)
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