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The document provides an overview of the Information Security (BHCS17A) Discipline Specific Elective course. It outlines the course objectives, learning outcomes, syllabus details, reference materials, teaching methods and assessment criteria. The course aims to provide a broad overview of fundamentals of information security covering various topics such as error correction, cryptography, malware etc.

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The document provides an overview of the Information Security (BHCS17A) Discipline Specific Elective course. It outlines the course objectives, learning outcomes, syllabus details, reference materials, teaching methods and assessment criteria. The course aims to provide a broad overview of fundamentals of information security covering various topics such as error correction, cryptography, malware etc.

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(BHCS17A) Discipline Specific Elective Course 3 (DSE-3) - Information Security

Guidelines

References Chapter Topic


Unit 1: Introduction
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 Security Concepts, Security Challenges, Security
[3] (pg no. 21-33) architecture, Security attacks, Security services ,
Security mechanisms
Unit 2: Error Detecting/Correction
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 Block Codes, Generator Matrix, Parity Check Matrix,
[2] (pg no. 66-90) Minimum distance of a Code, Error detection and
correction, Standard Array and syndrome decoding
4.1 Hamming Codes
(pg no. 100-102)
Unit 3: Cryptography
3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Encryption, Decryption, Symmetric encryption,
[3] (pg no. 86-108) cryptanalysis, Substitution Techniques – Caesar,
Monoalphabetic cipher, Playfair and Hill,
Polyalphabetic cipher, Vigenere and One-Time Pad.
Transposition Techniques – Rail fence Cipher
3.5 Steganography
(pg no. 110-111)

[1] 11.1 Watermarking


(pg no. 710)
[3] 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 Stream and Block ciphers, confusion and diffusion,
(pg no. 119-133) DES (Data Encryption Standard)
9.1, 9.2 Asymmetric encryption, Public-key cryptography
(pg no. 285- 297)
10.1 Diffie-Hellman key exchange, man-in-the-middle attack
(pg no. 314-318)
13.1 Digital signature
(pg no. 420-424)
Unit 4: Malicious software’s
[1] 3.1 Memory Exploits Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
(pg no. 134-152, 160)
3.2 Types of malwares (viruses, worms, Trojan horse, root
(pg no. 166-196) kits, bots)
Unit 5: Security in Internet-of-Things
[1] 13.1 Security implications, Mobile device security - threats
(pg no. 814-820) and strategies

References

[1] Pfleeger, C.P., Pfleeger,S.L., & Margulies, J. (2015). Security in Computing. 5th edition.
Prentice Hall.
13-14 Interrupts : Purpose of interrupts, Interrupt instructions, interrupt vectors and
interrupt descriptors, functioning of interrupt controller

15 Direct Memory Access (DMA): Basic DMA operation, functioning of DMA


controller

Assessment Methods
Written tests, assignments, quizzes, presentations as announced by the instructor in the class.

Keywords
Microprocessor architecture, microprocessor programming, interfacing,

Information Security (BHCS17A) Discipline Specific Course - (DSE)


Credit: 06

Course Objective
The course offers a broad overview of the fundamentals of information security covering topics
such as error correction/detection, cryptography, steganography, malwares, This course also
touches on the implications of security in Internet of Things (IoT).

Course Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course, a student will be able to,
1. Identify the major types of threats to information security
2. Describe the role of cryptography in security
3. Select appropriate error-detection and error-correction methods for an application
4. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of private and public key crypto systems
5. Describe malwares and memory exploits
6. Discuss the need for security in IoT

Detailed Syllabus
Unit 1

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Introduction: Security Concepts, Challenges, Security architecture, Security attacks, security
services, security mechanisms
Unit 2
Error detecting/correction: Block Codes, Generator Matrix, Parity Check Matrix, Minimum
distance of a Code, Error detection and correction, Standard Array and syndrome decoding,
Hamming Codes
Unit 3
Cryptography: Encryption, Decryption, Substitution and Transposition, Confusion and
diffusion, Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption, Stream and Block ciphers, DES,
cryptanalysis.
Public-key cryptography, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, man-in-the-middle attack
Digital signature, Steganography, Watermarking.
Unit 4
Malicious software’s: Types of malwares (viruses, worms, trojan horse, rootkits, bots), Memory
exploits - Buffer overflow, Integer overflow
Unit 5
Security in Internet-of-Things: Security implications, Mobile device security - threats and
strategies

Practical
1. Implement the error correcting code.
2. Implement the error detecting code.
3. Implement caeser cipher substitution operation.
4. Implement monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic cipher substitution operation.
5. Implement playfair cipher substitution operation.
6. Implement hill cipher substitution operation.
7. Implement rail fence cipher transposition operation.
8. Implement row transposition cipher transposition operation.
9. Implement product cipher transposition operation.
10.Illustrate the Ciphertext only and Known plaintext attacks.
11.Implement a stream cipher technique

References

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1. Pfleeger, C.P., Pfleeger,S.L., & Margulies, J. (2015). Security in Computing. 5th edition.
Prentice Hall
2. Lin, S. & Costello, D. J. (2004). Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and applications. 2nd
edition. Pearson Education
3. Stallings, W. (2018). Cryptography and network security. 7th edition. Pearson Education.

Additional Resources
1. Berlekamp, E. R. (1986). Algebraic Coding Theory. McGraw Hill Book Company
2. Stallings, W. (2018) Network security, essentials. 6th edition. Pearson Education.
3. Whitman M.E., & Mattord H.J. (2017). Principle of Information Security. 6th edition.
Cengage Learning.

Course Teaching Learning Process


● Use of ICT tools in conjunction with traditional class room teaching methods
● Interactive sessions
● Class discussions

Tentative weekly teaching plan is as follows:

Week Content

Security Concepts, Challenges, Security architecture, Security


1-2
attacks, security services, security mechanisms

Error detecting/correction, Block Codes, Generator Matrix, Parity


Check Matrix, Minimum distance of a Code, Error detection and
3-4
correction, Standard Array and syndrome decoding, Hamming
Codes

Cryptography: Encryption, Decryption, Substitution and


Transposition, Confusion and diffusion, Symmetric and
5-7
Asymmetric encryption, Stream and Block ciphers, DES, Modes of
DES

Cryptanalysis, Types of cryptanalytic attacks, Public-key


8-9 cryptography, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, man-in-the-middle
attack

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10-11 Digital signatures, Steganography and Digital Watermarking

Malicious Software: Types of malwares (viruses, worms, trojan


12-13 horse, rootkits, bots), Memory exploits - Buffer overflow, Integer
overflow

Security in Internet-of-Things, Security implications, Mobile device


14-15
security - threats and strategies, Cyberlaws

Assessment Methods
Written tests, assignments, quizzes, presentations as announced by the instructor in the class.

Keywords
Security mechanisms, private and public key cryptography, malware detection, security in IoT.

Data Mining (BHCS17B) Discipline Specific Elective - (DSE)


Credit: 06

Course Objective
This course introduces data mining techniques and enables students to apply these techniques on
real-life datasets. The course focuses on three main data mining techniques: Classification,
Clustering and Association Rule Mining tasks.

Course Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of the course, students will be able to do following:
1. Pre-process the data, and perform cleaning and transformation.
2. Apply suitable classification algorithm to train the classifier and evaluate its performance.
3. Apply appropriate clustering algorithm to cluster data and evaluate clustering quality
4. Use association rule mining algorithms and generate frequent item-sets and association rules

Detailed Syllabus

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