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Network and Computer Security

Secure sockets layer protocol.

Secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol, the dominant mode for secure browser-server communications. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

6.857

As Taught In

Fall 2003

Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

Translated Versions

فارسی

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Course Features

Course Description

6.857 is an upper-level undergraduate, first-year graduate course on network and computer security. It fits within the department's Computer Systems and Architecture Engineering concentration. Topics covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Techniques for achieving security in multi-user computer systems and distributed computer systems;
  • Cryptography: secret-key, public-key, digital signatures;
  • Authentication and identification schemes;
  • Intrusion detection: viruses;
  • Formal models of computer security;
  • Secure operating systems;
  • Software protection;
  • Security of electronic mail and the World Wide Web;
  • Electronic commerce: payment protocols, electronic cash;
  • Firewalls; and
  • Risk assessment.