Plan of Computing Security 1 Course for 4th Class

Title Computing Security 1
Course Coordinator Semester Course

Course Objective
The objectives of this course are to give students:
1. State the basic concepts in computer security, including security s goals, challenges, models, services, mechanisms and others important terms that used to understand computer security.
2. Explain concepts related to network security models, threats and attacks, and provide students with an overview of the basic tenets of computer security.
3. Explain concepts related to applied cryptology such as plaintext, cipher text, encryption and decryption algorithms, key(s), key space, cryptographer, cryptanalyst and so on.
4. List and explain the main cryptographic goals and state general types of key-based algorithms: symmetric and public-key with their properties.
5. Aware of the growing need of using cipher methods to keep the data and information secure, this is happened through the studying and applying number of security methods in different applications.
6. Study and discuss many cipher systems that divide into many groups according to different categories are classical, stream, block cipher systems (and their modes) and public key systems and others.
7. Enhance the student s ability to understand and develop new algorithms that is depending on the mathematical principles then programming and implementing number of ciphering algorithms using modern programming language. This depends on variant principles (not limits to the one concept or idea).
8. Knowing the modern application in the field of computer, data and network security such as: steganography, watermarking, data base security, OS security, firewall, intrusion detection and others.



Course Description
This course gives a comprehensive introduction into the field of computing security. The course includes the following topics:
1. What is computing security
2. Introduction to security goals, threats (attacks), and mechanlsms.
3. Introduction to cryptography (basic concepts and terms ).
4. Classical encryption techniques, Symmetric cryptography.
5. Fundamental of Block ciphers, Data encryption standard DES, block cipher mode of operation.
6. Fundamental of Stream ciphers, pseudo-number generators, Stream ciphers algorithms (LFSR,RC4).
7. Principles of public key cryptography (asymmetric cryptography), the RSA algorithm, the eillptic curve algorithm.
8. Key management.
9. Digital signature.
10. Message authentication and hash functions.
Introduction to information hiding ( steganography , digital watermarking ).