Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport

College of Computing and Information Technology

IS703

Information Systems Security

Spring 2012

Lectures: Wednesday 6-9 PM, Waboor ElMaya Branch

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Ayman Abdel-Hamid

Office: College of Computing and Information Technology, AAST, Room 409

E-mail: hamid at aast dot edu

Course home page: http://webmail.aast.edu/~hamid/iss

Office hours: by appointment

Syllabus

LECTURE LOG

Week	Date	Lecture	ToDo
1	Mar 14^th 2012	Discuss Syllabus + Ch1	Read Ch1 from textbook
2	Mar 21^st 2012	Classical Encryption Ch2	Read Ch2 from textbook
3	Mar 28^th 2012	Block Ciphers and DES Ch3 + Ch6 (6.1 and 6.2)	Read Ch3 and parts of Ch6 Hw1 assigned
4	April 4^th 2012	Symmetric Encryption Key Distribution Ch7	Read Ch7
5	April 11^th 2012	Public Key Cryptography Ch9	Hw1 is DUE Hw2 is assigned
6	April 18^th 2012	Key Management in Public Key Cryptography Ch10
7	April 25^th 2012	National Holiday	Hw2 is DUE
8	May 2^nd 2012	Message Authentication Ch11	Hw2 is DUE (extended deadline) Hw3 assigned
9	May 9^th 2012	Midterm Exam	Exam scope is all covered material up to Ch10
10	May 16^th 2012	Ch11 Discuss Research Report Assignment	Send Group/Topic by May 20^th 2012 (Already 2 Groups are formed)
11	May 23^rd 2012	Presidential Elections Holiday
12	May 30^th 2012	Firewalls Ch20
13	June 6^th 2012	Digital Signatures and Authentication Protocols Ch13
14	June 13^th 2012	NO Lecture
15	June 20^th 2012	Project Presentations
16	June 27^th 2012	Final Exam	Project Report Due

HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENTS

Assn #	Assigned	Due
HW 1	Wk3	Wk5
HW 2	Wk5	Wk7
HW 3	Wk8	Wk10

Last updated June 13^th 2012.