89-690 Introduction to secure communication and commerce

89-690 Introduction to secure communication and commerce

By Amir Herzberg, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University

Lecture Foils, provided as Open Office files. Please notice date of last update.

Course teaching assistant website (recitations, homework, etc.)

Exams and some solutions

Additional reading material:

• MD5 considered harmful - showing how to issue fake SSL certificates using MD5 collisions, with nice background too. Read the paper (link in site)!
• Handbook of applied cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone
• Security Enginneering by Ross Anderson
• An Illustrated Guide to IPsec
• Folklore, Practice and Theory of Robust Combiners a paper I wrote, with definitions of encryption, authentication etc., where I present several robust combiners.
• Article (with code) explaining how to build a secure channel, by Efi Merdler.