All the lecture notes are shared by both ee323 and ce823.

Notes 2010

 LECTURE NOTES (M Reed)

Notes 2009/10

FORMATIVE TESTS:

http://perception.essex.ac.uk/

 

OTHER RESOURCES:

Kerberos --- a paper from `Distributed Systems', publ. IEEE 1994, pp. 78-94

PKI Cross Certification

PKI --- a less optimistic view

The risks of key escrow

Network Address Translation

Secure Socket Layer

Open VDPN --- SSL for a VPN

CE823 POST-GRADUATE ASSIGNMENT

EE323 Undergraduate laboratory script:

The script is given on a week-by-week basis. (I suggest that you start with Week1 document and read the Introduction after the first session.):

Introduction to the laboratory and assessment details

Weeks 1 and 2 (University weeks 16 and 17) Familiarisation and scanning of remote hosts

Week 3 (University week 18) TCP protocol, packet sniffing and the dangers of unencrypted protocols

Week 4 (University week 19) Packet Filter Firewalls

Week 5 (University week 20) : No new tasks. But, there is a log-book check and chance to ask laboratory staff about any problems you have from the earlier tasks. But, here is a sample MCQ test for the week 21 test.

Week 6 (University week 21) : No tasks, there will be an MCQ test for the lab during the normal lab session

Week 7 (University week 20) Circuit and application firewalls

Week 8 (University week 23) Network Intrusion Detection

Week 9 (University week 24) : DNS

Week 10 (University week 25) Second MCQ test for the lab during the laboratory session

Important file to download

You will need this file to boot your UMLs  but note that you should "Right Click -> Save Link As ..." else it may download a large file to your Mdrive/Desktop and you may not want to do this!
ee323--0809-v1.tar
To avoid problems with full M-drives it is probably best to save this file to the directory /tmp/ and use the "Browse" facility from um_linux_manager to open the "snapshot". The Week 1 script tells you how to use the file.

Reference material

• Nessus documentation
• Introduction to Nessus (read this first!)
• Nessus user manual (quite detailed and probably beyond basic lab task)
• Documentation for the UML system installed:
• Incomplete documentation is here (you may find the "Quick overview" useful)