Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ITS 4530 - Encrypted Communication
The basic principles and technology of telecommunication using encryption as a security tool, including hash functions, symmetric key encryption. The basic concepts of data security: availability, confidentiality, authentication, non-repudiation. Digital signatures. Some topics are: SSH, VPN, IPsec, Kerberos. A key topic will be PKI - Public Key Infrastructure - systems.
Requisites: C or better in (ITS 2300 or 330)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Competently use SSH for command line access to remote machines; use SSH port forwarding for VPN’s.
- Create and verify digital signatures; understand how they provide authentication and non-repudiation.
- Encrypt and decrypt email using PGP or equivalent.
- Explain/understand SSL and the PKI that supports it; create web sites that use https; explain potential vulnerabilities.
- Understand Kerberos and its usage as the underlying authentication mechanism of Windows.
- Understand and be able to employ the concepts of availability, confidentiality, authentication, and non-repudiation.
- Understand the three basic cryptographic tools: hash functions, symmetric key encryption, and public key encryption.
- Understand/explain the basics for IPsec.
- Use/understand basic tools for security management: hashcalc, keepass, trucrypt.
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