The lecture introduces the main concepts and problems of IT security. Classic and modern attack techniques on network protocols, password databases,
computer systems and web applications are presented and suitable countermeasures are discussed. This also includes the presentation of practice-relevant cryptographic protocols and algorithms, as well as their security properties.

Prerequisites / Recommendations

Linear algebra for computer scientists, analysis for computer scientists, stochastics for computer scientists, programming, modelling, concepts and methods of system software, database systems, computability and complexity, data structures and algorithms.

Literature

• Security and Cryptography on the Internet - From Secure Email to IP Encryption, Jörg Schwenk
• Computer Security: Principles and Practice, Lawrie Brown and William Stallings
• Lecture slides

The course is held in German and administered via PANDA