Security and Trust in Cultural Environments

EDG607 Security and Trust in Cultural Environments

Professor: Dimitris KOUKOPOULOS | Course outline [pdf file]

Basic concepts and terminology. Attacks: viruses, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks. Firewalls. Cryptography: asymmetric vs. symmetric cryptosystems, Caesar cipher, systems of public-private key, Diffee-Hellman. Internet security: digital certificates and digital signatures, SSL. User authentication and access control. Security of cultural information systems and databases. Intellectual rights protection: watermarking. Operating systems security: attacks, security mechanisms, trust systems. Trust management systems. Trust in distributed multimedia networks. Applications. Legal matters. Survey of current research papers.