Professional Elective:

Cryptography & Network Security

Topics Reference
Unit I: Introduction: OSI Security CHAPTER 1
Architecture, Security Attacks:
Threats, Vulnerability and Controls,
Security Services: Confidentiality,
Integrity, Availability.
Introduction to Cryptography,
Conventional Encryption: CHAPTER 2
Conventional encryption model -
classical encryption techniques
Unit II: Encryption and
Decryption: Characteristics of Good
Encryption Technique: Properties of
Trustworthy Encryption Systems; CHAPTER 13
Types of Encryption Systems: Based
on Key, Based on Block; Confusion
and Diffusion; Cryptanalysis
Unit III: Symmetric Key
Encryption and Public Key
Encryption: Data Encryption
Standard (DES) Algorithm: Double
and Triple DES, Security of the DES; CHAPTER 3
Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) Algorithm, DES and AES
Comparison, RSA Technique, Digital
Signature.
Unit IV: IP Security: Overview of IP
Security (IPSec); IP Security
Architecture; Modes of Operation;
Security Associations, Security
Parameter Index (SPI), SA CHAPTER 6
Management, Security Policy:
Authentication Header (AH);
Encapsulating Security Payload
(ESP); Internet Key Exchange.

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Unit V: Network Concepts; Threats
in Networks, Threats in Transit:
Eavesdropping and
Wiretapping, Protocol Flaws,
Impersonation; Network Security CHAPTER 7
Controls: Architecture, Encryption,
Virtual Private
Networks, Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) and Certificates
Unit VI: Web and System Security:
Web Security: Secure socket layer CHAPTER 8
and transport layer security, Secure
Electronic transaction, System
Security: Intruders, Viruses and
related threads; Network Security
Controls: CHAPTER 10
Architecture, Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificates,
Security Features of Trusted
Operating Systems.

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