| Course Code | 263-4640-00L |
| Language | English |
| Instructors |
Prof. Dr. Adrian Perrig [AP] Dr. Stefan Frei [SF] |
| Teaching Assistants |
Daniele Asoni [DA] Jean-Pierre Smith [JS] Taeho Lee [TL] |
| Lectures | Tuesday 10:15-11:55, CAB G 61 |
| Guest Talks and Exercise Sessions | Tuesday 9:15-10:00, CAB G 61 |
| Lab | In this course you can solve a set of challenges on Hacking Lab. We will send out invitations so you can join our closed course event. You can solve the challenges autonomously at any time you want. |
| Project | The project consists in the creation of a Hacking Lab-like challenge. Teams of (up to) five students will create one new challenge per team. |
| Office Hours | By appointment only. Preferred hours: Monday 14:30-16:00, CAB F 86.2. |
| Grading |
You must pass the exam to get credit points. The project can boost your exam grade. |
| Course Catalogue Entry | 263-4640-00L Network Security |
| Course Slides/Readers (SVN) | Use your n.ethz account to access the slides and readers in the SVN: https://svn.inf.ethz.ch/svn/perrig/netsec/teaching/netsec-2017/students/ We will only give access to students registered for the course. If you are registered and cannot access the repository, please let us know, and send us your nethz ID. (Please allow for a few days of delay, as the authorization process is manual.) |
| 26.02.2018 | The exam reviews are scheduled on Tuesday, 27.02.2018, 14:30-15:30, and on Friday, 02.03.2018, 11:00-12:00. Both will be held in CAB F 86.2. |
| 20.11.2017 | The guest lecture/exercise session (09:00-10:00) of tomorrow, 21.11.2017, is cancelled. The lecture will start as usual at 10:15. |
| 31.10.2017 | The project description (Hacking challenge creation) is published in the SVN. |
| 09.10.2017 | The guest lecture (09:00-10:00) of tomorrow, 10.10.2017, is cancelled. The lecture will start as usual at 10:15. |
| 02.10.2017 | The guest lecture (09:00-10:00) of tomorrow, 03.10.2017, is cancelled. The lecture will start as usual at 10:15. |
| 25.09.2017 | We have sent out an email giving students access to
the Hacking Lab course event. Please let us know if you registered late and have not yet received the email. |
| 20.09.2017 | We have sent out an email giving students access to
the SVN repository,
the video recordings of the lectures,
and the Slack channel. Please let us know if you registered late and have not yet received the email. N.B.: This year no legal declaration will be required. |
| 14.09.2017 | The website for the Network Security course is online with the preliminary course schedule. Classes start on 19.09.2017 with the Computer Networks Refresher at 9:15 |
| Date | Guest or Exercise | Lecture | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1, 19.09.2017 | Computer Networks Refresher [AP] | Introduction, roots of trust, crypto background [AP] Security protocols, TCP/IP vulnerabilities [AP] |
Starts on the second week |
| Week 2, 26.09.2017 | E1: Hacking Lab introduction [DA] | Blockchain, network security issues [AP] | Get Hacking-Lab account, join event and set up access |
| Week 3, 03.10.2017 | None | DNS security and privacy [SF] | None |
| Week 4, 10.10.2017 | None | PKI systems: TLS PKI, CT, ARPKI [LC] |
3002 Network and Domainsearch 3014 Sniffing Network Traffic 7010 Network Security: DNS Host Name Change |
| Week 5, 17.10.2017 | Emilia Kasper, Google | SSL/TLS [AP] |
3014 Wireshark Extended Features 3031 SSL/TLS Protocol 7030 Linksys SSL Break |
| Week 6, 24.10.2017 | David McLaughlin, ETH Zurich | DDoS attacks and defenses [SF] | None |
| Week 7, 31.10.2017 | E2: DNS and DNSSEC [DA] | SCION secure Internet architecture (control and data planes, PKIs, ISD coordination) [AP] |
3001a NMAP Scanning with different options 3001c NMAP Hacking Lab Network Fingerprinting 5221 ssh-attack |
| Week 8, 07.11.2017 | E3: Project explanation [DA] | SCION secure Internet architecture (OPT, SIBRA, DRKey) [AP] | None |
| Week 9, 14.11.2017 | E4: SCION Introduction [FW] | Anonymous communications systems (Definitions, Mixnets, circuit-based systems) [DA] |
3029 Network Forensic Challenge 5072 Compression Side Channel 5073 Compression Side Channel with Block Cipher |
| Week 10, 21.11.2017 | None | Anonymous communications systems (Tor, censorship resilience, network-layer systems) [DA] | None |
| Week 11, 28.11.2017 | E5: Hacking Lab solutions | Firewalls, IDS, evasion and limitations [SF] |
3038 IPv6 Firewall Deception 5061 Steganography Challenge 5108 Proxy-Log-Analysis |
| Week 12, 05.12.2017 | None | Authentication and encryption for broadcast communication [AP] | None |
| Week 13, 12.12.2017 | Thomas Oberhammer, Open Systems AG | Probabilistic traffic monitoring techniques [AP] | None |
| Week 14, 19.12.2017 | Antoine Neuenschwander, SWITCH | Frontiers in network security research, how to prepare for the final exam, wrap-up [AP] | None |
