Dennis Hofheinz: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020

Name Prof. Dr. Dennis Hofheinz
FieldComputer Science
Address
Inst. f. Theoretische Informatik
ETH Zürich, CAB E 78
Universitätstrasse 6
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 632 40 29
E-mailhofheinz@inf.ethz.ch
URLhttps://people.inf.ethz.ch/dhofheinz/
DepartmentComputer Science
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
263-0009-00LInformation Security Lab Information Restricted registration - show details
Only for master students, otherwise a special permission by the study administration of D-INFK is required.

Number of participants limited to 150.
8 credits2V + 1U + 3P + 1AK. Paterson, D. Basin, S. Capkun, D. Hofheinz, A. Perrig
AbstractThis InterFocus Course will provide a broad, hands-on introduction to Information Security, introducing adversarial thinking and security by design as key approaches to building secure systems.
ObjectiveThis course will introduce key concepts from Information Security, both from attack and defence perspectives. Students will gain an appreciation of the complexity and challenge of building secure systems.
ContentThe course is organised in two-week segments. In each segment, a new concept from Information Security will be introduced. The overall scope will be broad, including cryptography, protocol design, network security, system security.
Lecture notesWill be made available during the semester.
LiteraturePaul C. van Oorschot, Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels.
Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography.
Prerequisites / NoticeIdeally, students will have taken the D-INFK Bachelors course “Information Security" or an equivalent course at Bachelors level.