Lecture Topic 6: Internet Security
Description
This topic deals with the important issues of security for data on the Internet. It will look into the reasons for needing security, common security threats to servers and to browsers, and the basic steps in establishing security.
Scheduled Lectures
- Security on the Internet: Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Message Digests, and Digital Certificates
- SSL, SET and Digital Payment Systems
- Security on Web Servers and Web Browsers
Required Reading
- Lecture notes
- Section 3: General Questions from The World-Wide-Web Security FAQ, maintained by Lincoln Stein, available from http://www.w3.org/Security/faq/wwwsf1.html.
- Unit Reader 9: Basic Cryptography, Chapter 2 in Web Security: A Step-By-Step Reference Guide, Lincoln Stein, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
- Unit Reader 10: SSL, SET, and Digital Payment Systems, Chapter 3 in Web Security: A Step-By-Step Reference Guide, Lincoln Stein, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Supplementary Reading
- The World-Wide-Web Security FAQ, by Lincoln Stein, available from http://www.w3.org/Security/faq/www-security-faq.html.
- CERT Security Advisories - http://www.cert.org/advisories/.
- BugTraq - http://www.securityfocus.com/popups/forums/bugtraq/intro.shtml.
Document author: H.L. Hiew,
Unit Coordinator
Last Modified:
Sunday, 21-Jul-2002 17:12:00 MST
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