Course Info

• Course Name: CSE 548, Advanced Computer Network Security
• Semester: Spring 2026
• Instructor: Jed Crandall
• Canvas is where to find other course info

Syllabus

• The syllabus is here.

Slides

• Course intro
• Network security basics, secure hashes, stream ciphers, and WiFi security
• All the math you need for Exam 1 (Birthday paradox, finite fields, Fermat’s Little Theorem, fast modular exponentiation)
• Secure hash functions and certificates
• DNS attacks
• Siddharth’s guest lecture about FFTs
• More to come…

Reading assignments…

• Hacker’s Manifesto, please read by January 15th
• Malicious Life podcast about Operation Sundevil, please listen to it by January 15th
• The Final Nail in WEP’s Coffin, please read by January 22nd
• Three videos about WiFi security flaws: KRACK attacks, FragAttacks, and a demo of FragAttacks; Please watch by January 22nd
• Read this paper about an MD5 collision attack and this report, and watch this video, all by January 29th
• Read this paper and watch this video, both about IP fragmentation and DNS security, by February 5th
• Read the AES proposal by February 12th
• Read the ZMap paper and this survey of IPID side channels by Febryary 19th
• Read the classic OTR paper and the seminal Diffie-Hellman paper, and find and stream CITIZEN FOUR (directed by Laura Poitras) by March 5th
• More to come…

Homework assignments

• Will be posted in Canvas only