Secure Electronic Commerce

ECT 582 – Winter 2007

Loop Campus

 

Instructor: Ellis E. Confer

Office Location: Room TBD
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

e-mail: econfer@cti.depaul.edu

 

Course Description & Syllabus

 

 

This course discusses extensions to notions of traditional computer security to include current advancements and issues related to commerce and business conducted over nonproprietary networks. We will specifically concentrate on the Internet as the medium of choice. We will discuss issues of secrecy, integrity and availability; threats, vulnerability, control and attacks; encryption and decryption; digital certificates and signatures; non-repudiation; and legal differences between e-commerce and traditional commerce. This course will address e-commerce as well as the architectural differences that determine particular security solutions.

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Texts & Articles

 

Text:

The textbook for this class is Warwick Ford & Michael S. Baum's Secure Electronic Commerce, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-027276-0.

Articles:

 

 

 

Session Topics

 

 

Week

Topic & Session Notes Reading Assignment
     
1 Introduction to Secure e-Commerce Chapters 1,2

Readings & Relevant Links

     
2 Cryptography;

HW 1 Due 4/9/2004

Chapter 4
     
3 Digital Certificates 6

Readings & Relevant Links

     
4  Digital Certificates (cont'd);

HW 2 Due

7

Readings & Relevant Links

     
5 Midterm;

 Digital Certificates (cont'd);

Public Key Infrastructure

(Brief Lecture)

Midterm Study Guide

1,2,4,6,7

     
6 Non-repudiation; Electronic Signature Law;

HW 3 Due.

9,3,8
     
7 Electronic Payment Systems

HW 4 Due.

Readings & Relevant Links
     
8 Internet Security Final Exam Study Guide

5

     
9 Internet Security (continued)

 Application Security, Email Security, SSL & Web Services Security

HW 5 Due.

Chapter 5, Suggested Readings & Relevant Links
     
10 Password Security, Hacking Overview Readings & Relevant Links
     
11 Final Exam (no lecture)

HW 6 Due.

 

 

 

Assignments & Study Guides

 

 

Assignment 1 2 3 4 5 6

Readings & Relevant Links