Security in Distributed Systems and Networks

3 Credits

Threats and countermeasures in centralized and distributed systems; communication security techniques based on encryption; symmetric and asymmetric encryption; encryption modes, including stream and block encryption, and cipher block chaining; message origin and mutual authentication; third-party and inter-realm authentication, authentication of mobile users; data confidentiality and integrity protocols; formal analysis of authentication protocols and message integrity; access control in distributed systems and networks; firewall design; case studies of security mechanisms and policies.