Lecture IT Security (MI0032)

Course No. 1668

FS 2024

Rolf Oppliger

Course Information

Hint: The information provided here complements the official course catalogue (Vorlesungsverzeichnis). Note that the lecture is not on OLAT.

Location: Seminar room BIN-2.A.01

Dates: The lecture will take place fortnightly (with a few adjustments) on the following Mondays between 8:15 am and 12:00 am:

Registration: All participants must officially register for the lecture, and will be added to the team MI0032: IT Security (FS 2024) in MS Teams.

Exam: The exam will take place on June 10, 2024, between 9 and 10 am in lecture hall KOH-B-10 located at Rämistrasse 71 in the center of Zürich (route description). Please, be ready in the room a couple of minutes before 9 am, as we will start on time. The exam is open book, meaning that you can bring along anything on paper (including books). Electronis devices are prohibited though.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Threats and attacks
  3. Countermeasures
  4. Security management
  5. Conclusions and outlook

Study Material

Instead of execises, students are required to self-study cryprography based on a text that is available here and in MS Teams. The text refers to draft chapters 1 and 2 of a book entitled "Cryptography 101: From Theory to Practice" (Artech House, 2021, ISBN 978-1-63081-846-3). Questions are highly appreciated and can be asked at any time during the lecture.

The lecture slides are available here.

The lectures are recorded on a best effort basis. Some lectures may be missing, and for some lectures there may only be an audio feed or a PowerPoint replacement with an audio feed. All recordings are available in MS Teams under General > Files > Recordings. The format of the file is YYYY-MM-DD, where YYYY refers to the year 2024, MM to the month, and DD to the day of the lecture, or YYYY-MM-DD-Ln, if the lecture consists of multiple lessons (e.g., L1, L2, L3, and L4 for four lessons).


© 2024 Rolf Oppliger