Last updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Course Support Materials

Computer Science Student Resource Site: Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-NetSec2e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to .
Figures: On-line transparency masters of the figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
Tables: On-line transparency masters of all the tables from the book in PDF format.
PowerPoint Slides: A set of slides prepared for use with this book by Henric Johnson at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Laboratory Exercises on Encryption: Two lab exercises on public-key encryption and key sharing, prepared by Prof. James Benham of Montclair State U.

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Network Security Courses

Instructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. I would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
INFS 754 Network Security and Intrusion Detection. Dakota State U. Useful project and lab assignments
CS378 Network Security and Privacy. U.of Texas. Lecture notes.
IT Security. Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Includes security projects for students and useful handouts.
CS 437/537 Computer Network Security. U. of Alabama. Includes security projects for students.
CSCI 555. Hood College in Maryland. Includes lecture notes.
CS465 Computer Security. Brigham Young U. Lecture notes and lab assignments
INFS 766 Internet Security Protocols. George Mason U. A number of useful links
COMP 4108 Computer and Systems Security. Carleton U. Useful handouts
CSCI 5931 Research Topic: Network Security. U. of Houston. PPT slides and handouts
MCS 180 Network Security. Mills College, Oakland, CA