NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 網路安全(6775)
(Eng.) Network Security
Offering Dept Department of Electrical Engineering
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher OUYANG, YEN-CHIEH
Department Department of Electrical Engineering/Graduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description The course includes symmetric ciphers, asymmetric cyphers, cryptographic data integrity algorithms, mutual trust, network and internetsecurity, system security, and legal and ethical issues.

Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
The object we will achieve is to let the student understand the principles of cryptography and then applies those principles to describe network security protocols.


Lecturing
Other
Discussion
Exercises
topic Discussion/Production
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Quiz
Assignment
Oral Presentation
Attendance
Written Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 1. Introduction,
Week 2 2.Mathematics of Cryptography
Week 3 Part I: Modular Arithmetic, Congruence, and Matrices,
3.Traditional Symmetric-Key Ciphers,
Week 4 4.Mathematics of Cryptography
Week 5 Part II: Algebraic Structures, 5. Introduction to Modern Symmetric-key,
Week 6 6. Data Encryption Standard (DES),
Week 7 7. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES),
Week 8 8. Encipherment Using Modern Symmetric-Key Ciphers,
Week 9 Mid term exam
Week 10 9.Mathematics of Cryptography
Week 11 Part III: Primes and Related Congruence Equations, 10.Symmetric-Key Cryptography,
Week 12 11. Message Integrity and Message Authentication,
Week 13 12.Cryptographic Hash Functions, 13.Digital Signature,
Week 14 14.Entity Authentication, 15.Key Management,
Week 15 16. Security at the Application Layer: PGP and S/MIME,
Week 16 17.Security at the Transport Layer: SSL and TLS,
Week 17 18. Security at the Network Layer: IPSec.
Week 18 Final exam
Evaluation
Home work assignment 15%, Mid term exam 30%, Programming assignment and term project 15%, Final exam 40%.


Textbook & other References
Cryptogrphy and Network Security
by: Behrouz A. Forouzan


Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
http://www.ee.nchu.edu.tw/wb_course02.asp?yr=96&cc=2&sn=243


Office Hours
2:00-3:30 PM, Wednesday


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