Course Info

• Course Name: CSE 548, Computer Network Security
• Semester: Spring 2025
• Instructor: Jed Crandall
• Canvas is where to find other course info

Syllabus

• The syllabus is here.

Office Hours

BYENG 574, 9am to 11:45am on Mondays. I can be on Jitsi while I’m in office hours in case you can’t make it physically, but you’ll need to email me to remind me to log in.

Slides

• Course intro
• Symmetric crypto through the 80’s and Diffie-Hellman
• RSA, semantic security and attack types
• AES, cipher modes, stream ciphers, and WiFi security
• Hash functions and MACs, certificates, OTR, and Signal
• Intro to NIDS

Readings (FYI, these are out of order and subject to change, and some are optional)

• Diffie-Hellman
• RSA
• MiniAES specification
• A tutorial about linear and differential cryptanalysis
• OTR
• Certs and MD5 collisions, video
• KRACK Attacks, video
• Quantum Algorithms Revisited
• Dharmapurikar and Paxsonxxx
• Handley and Paxsonxxx
• Ptacek and Newshamxxx
• FOCI 2014 Anonymousxxx
• TSPUxxx
• OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
• Great Cannon
• TCP split handshake
• [IP Fragment Reassembly with Scapy] (https://www.sans.org/white-papers/33969/)xxx
• [Physical layer attacks] (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/woot11/tech/final_files/Goodspeed.pdf)

Assignments

• Will be posted in Canvas only