Winter
2006

Security in Wireless Networks
(half-course, 4VL + 2 PR)


Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

IMPORTANT: This is a draft. The final document may differ significantly from the current version.

 
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:

  • Half-Course, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium.
  • Offered regularly, at least once every two years, usually in spring.
  • 2 lectures per week, 2h each, over one semester (4SWS VL).
  • 1 lab (Praktikum) per week, 2h each, over one semester (2SWS PR).

Prerequisites:

  • Successful completion of lecture "Security Engineering" or an adequate knowledge.
  • Medium | high security engineering knowledge.
  • At least one semester attendance of  'Development Tools and System Administration in Unix'.

Slides: (pdf)

Demonstrations: (please use with care and conform to CBO)

Syllabus:

  • Introduction
  • Existing Wireless Networks
  • New Wireless Networks and New Challenges
  • Trust
  • Thwarting Malicious Behavior
  • Naming and Addressing
  • Establishment of Security Associations
  • Thwarting the Wormhole Attack
  • Secure Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
  • Privacy Protection
  • Thwarting Selfish Behavior
  • Selfish Behavior at the MAC layer of CSMA/CA
  • Selfishness in Packet Forwarding
  • Cooperation among Operators
  • Secure Protocols for Behavior Enforcement
  • Appendices
  • Introduction to Security and Cryptographic Functions
  • Introduction to Game Theory

Syllabus - Lab (Practicum, 70% = 38.5 points required): (Draft)

  • Lab 1:
  • Lab 2:
  • Lab 3:
1.

Suggested Readings (Books):

 Links
Cambridge
Ross Anderson's home page
Bruce Schneier
▪home page
▪Safe Personal Computing (DE)
NIH
Computer Security Information
NIST
Computer Security Resource Center
NIST
Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS)
CERT
 cert.org
BSI
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Biometrics
▪The Biometric Consortium
▪Overview (german)
OS specific
▪Windows-Security
▪Linux-Security
e-Learning
CrypTool (de)


 

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