After completing the course, the student is expected to:
have overview and background information of main results, research questions and research methods within security in communication systems
be able to discuss security issues and how these issues relate to their own specialisation
be able to work with security-related problems of mobile communication and computing related to their own specialisation
Innhold
The course will cover selected topics among the following:
Cryptography: classic cryptosystems, symmetric key cryptography, public key cryptography, hash functions, random numbers, information hiding, and cryptanalysis
Access control: authentication and authorisation, password based security, ACLs and capabilities, multilevel and multilateral security, Bell-LaPadula and Biba's models, RBAC