NETWORK SECURITY - 2020


	EXAM SUBJECTS


	01. services provided by a security system (course notes, 1.8).

	02. issues covered by a security policy (course notes, 4.3).

	03. password maintenance best practices (course notes, 4.10.4).

	04. describe the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm (course notes, 10.5).

	05. authentication occurrences (course notes, 13.1).

	06. means to provide authentication credentials (course notes, 13.2).

	07. VPN - generalities (course notes, 16.1).

	08. main characteristics of SSH (course notes, 16.4).
	
	09. security requirements for secure storage (course notes, 17.0).

	10. key points to consider when using a P2P network (course notes, 18.6).

	11. encryption algorithms classification (course notes, 10.2)

	12. MD5 - generalities (classification, characteristics, history, specification)

	13. SHA-1 - generalities

	14. DES - generalities

	15. TDES - algorithm description (FIPS 46-3, pages 15, 16)

	16. AES - generalities

	17. AES - pseudocode (FIPS 197, paragraph 5.1 - pag. 14, 15)

	18. RSA - algorithm description

	19. RSA - example with a pair of primes p, q 

	20. DSS - generalities

	21. DSS - the overall scheme (using the DSA with SHA)
		(FIPS 186-4, Figure 1)

	22. SSL, TLS - definitions, versions, short description

	23. SSL - handshake - first 5 steps

	24. SSL - handshake - last 5 steps

	25. SSL - the authentication of the server by the client

	26. SSL - the authentication of the client by the server

	27. SSL - enumerate 8 cryptographic algorithms used with the protocol SSL


	Bibliography:

	12-14, 16 - see the generalities.txt file from this folder.
	15 - FIPS 46-3 - csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips46-3/fips46-3.pdf
	17 - FIPS 197 - csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf
	18 - 19 - www.di-mgt.com.au/rsa_alg.html
	21 - FIPS 186 - https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-4.pdf
	22 - http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html, http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TLS.html
	23 - 27 - staff.fmi.uvt.ro/~stelian.mihalas/cry_sec/book/crysec.pdf - ch. 12

	course notes - https://staff.fmi.uvt.ro/~stelian.mihalas/net_sec/book/netsec_all.pdf

	The written exam will consist of 10 questions worth 5 points each.