The aim of this course is to give an introduction to some basic aspects of cybersecurity, these include cryptography, protocols, system security and network security. 

There are pre-recorded videos available, together with slides, as preparation for the interactive slots. The interactive slots are sometimes used to provide further explanations, we do labs, sometimes students present solutions to exercises, and sometimes  we invite guests to give a short seminar.  

This course will cover commonly used cryptographic primitives and their role in information and communication security, security notions of cryptographic designs/schemes,  ideas of secure computation, introduction to system security, introduction to network security and introduction to secure communication protocol.Programming exercises/examples are mainly based on C and Python.

Students need to be able to do  basic maths (algebra, probability) and have some understanding of computing/networking. If in doubt, please at least watch some of the videos of  "This is CS50" (DuckDuckGo will direct you to the right corner of the Internet). But the course is self-contained, so we cover what we need along the way, this is also why there are no prerequisites. 

None.

References to the recommended books and literature necessary for this course will be given on the course moodle page.

Online quizzes, participation in interactive sessions, project work. 

All content that we cover. 

Your final grade will be calculated based on the points that you accumulated via the different assessment components. An overview of deadlines and requirements for the components, as well as the points that you can get per component is given on the course's Moodle page.