After successful completion of the course, students are able to:
First part: Cryptography and its applications
Second part: Security and Privacy on the Internet
The course will be held in Distance Learning. During the lectures, which will be offered online over Zoom meetings, the topics of the course will be clarified and practical examples and applications will be discussed. Lectures are registered and the recordings will be published in TUWEL in the next 1-2 days. Students must enroll to the course on TISS to obtain access to the TUWEL platform.
In order to strengthen and put in practice the concepts explained during the lectures, students are required to solve practical assignments including the development of small programs in Python, the usage of the tools presented during the course to carry out some tasks or analyze the source code of small web applications to identify vulnerabilities and exploit them.
Aside from lectures, we will provide regular meetings (over Zoom) where the students can be supported by tutors and lecturers in the solution of their homework and where they can ask questions to the topics presented during the course.
ECTS-Breakdown (3 ECTS: 75 Stunden)
The evaluation is based on the performance obtained by the students in the following parts:
The number of points of the exercise part is given by the sum of the scores obtained in the various assignments. Assignments that are not handed in are worth 0 points.
Two different attempts are offered for each of the two tests: the first one during the semester, the second one before the beginning of the winter semester (mid of September). Tests will take place online over Zoom meetings and a camera (either on the laptop or on an additional device like a smartphone) must be active for the entire duration of the exam. Tests will consist of multiple-choice questions and open answer questions about the contents of the course and the topics treated in the assignments. For every test, students can take part to both attempts (e.g., to improve their grade), but only the last handed in attempt will be considered.
In order to pass the course, students must obtain at least 50% of the points in each of the evaluation items (25 points in the exercise part, 12.5 points in each of the two tests).
The final grade of the course is derived from the number of obtained points as follows:
The student must have at least all of the course(s) completed listed below: