Punjab Engineering College Punjab Engineering College Punjab Engineering College

BE 4th Year First Semester

S. No.

Course Code

Course Name

L

T

P

Total

Credits

1

 

Humanities III (Elective)

4

0

0

4

4

2

IT 407

Information System Security

4

0

0

4

4

3

IT 408

Software Engineering & Project Management

4

0

0

4

4

4

IT 409

Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems

4

0

0

4

4

5

IT 414

Department Lab III

0

0

4

4

2

6

IT 497

Industrial Training

0

0

0

0

0

7

IT 498

Capstone Project I
or

0

0

8

8

4

 

 

Elective I (for those who have completed IT 397)

3

0

2

5

4

 

Total :

16

0

12

28

22

Humanities III (Electives)

1

HU 401

Economic Reforms in India

2

HU 402

Business Environment and Industrial Legislation

Course Name       :               INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY
Course Code        :               IT 407
L T P                     :               4 0 0
Pr-req.                   :               -----
Rationale:           
Students will be able to implement various algorithms for secure information transfer over the network.
Lecture wise Break up of course                                                                                                              No. of Lectures
BASIC ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION                                                                                                (4)
Attackers and Types of threats, challenges for information security, Encryption Techniques, Classical Cryptographic Algorithms: Monoalphabetic Substitutions such as the Caesar Cipher, Cryptanalysis of Monoalphabetic ciphers, Polyalphabetic Ciphers such as Vigenere, Vernam Cipher, Stream and Block Ciphers, Rotor Machines and Steganography), Stream ciphers and Block ciphers, Design considerations for stream ciphers/ Block ciphers
NUMBER THEORY AND BASIC ALGEBRA                                                                                             (4)
Prime Numbers, Greatest Common Divisor, Euclidean algorithm, Modular Arithmetic, Properties of Modular Arithmetic
COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES                                                                                                                    (5)
Comparison between Lossy and Lossless compression, Run Length Encoding, Huffman Encoding, Statistical Compression, Lampel Ziv Welch (LZW)
ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMS                                                                                                                       (12)
Fiestel Network, Data Encryption Standard (DES), modes of  DES, Breaking of DES, Triple DES, IDEA, Knapsack Algorithm , RSA Algorithm, Elliptic curve based encryption systems, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm, Digital Signatures standards, Kerberos Algorithm, Needham Schroeder Algorithm, Digital signatures
APPLICATIONS                                                                                                                                 (9)
E-Mail Security: Pretty Good Privacy(PGP), Multipurpose Internet and Mail Extensions (MIME), IP Security: Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating Security Payload, Key Management, Web Security: Secure Socket Layer & Transport Layer Security, Secure Electronics Transaction(SET), Firewall: Design principles, goals, controls, limitations of Firewall, Trusted  Systems
SPEECH ENCRYPTION                                                                                                                                  (6)
Cryptology of speech signals in GSM Network, Narrow band and Wide band systems, Comparison of Analog & Digital Encryption Systems
HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM STUDY – TMN                                                                                           (7)
Telecommunication Management Network, Architecture, Layers,  Client-Server Model, Structure of management information, Management servicing and functions.
BOOKS:
  1. Cryptography and Network Security (Principles and  Practices) by William Stallings

REFERENCES:

  1. “Security in Computing (Second Edition)’, Charles P.fleeger, 1996, Prentice Hall International, Inc.
  2. Cryptography & Network Security, Atul Kahate, TMH
  3. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C,Bruce Schneier, John Wiley and Sons
  4. Firewalls and Internet Security, Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison-Wesley
  5. “Security Technologies for the world wide web”, Rolf Oppliger, Artech House, Inc.
  6. “Digital Certificates Applied Internet Security”, Jalal Feghhi, Jalli Feghhi and Peter Williams, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
  7. Cipher Systems, Diffie & HellmanA new Dimension in Computer Data Security by Meyar CH & Matyas CM, Johan Wiley and Sons.