Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
GSM

Security for Electronic Commerce
22:198:611

Spring 2009
Thursdays 6:40 - 9:40pm, New Brunswick, Beck Hall Room 201

Instructor : Prof. Vijay Atluri

Office

: 200R Ackerson Hall (Newark)
Office Hours : Thursdays 5:00 - 6:30pm, Room 245, Levin Building
Telephone: 973-353-1642
Fax: 973-353-5003
E-mail: atluri at rutgers dot edu
Homepage: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~atluri

  • Final Exam (Due on April 30)
  • Makeup Midterm Examiniation, April 16, 4:30pm-6:30pm Room 107-B, Levin Building.
  • Schedule for Paper Presentations and Project Demonstrations
  • Official University/Campus closings:
    Call 973-353-1766 or 732-932-1766
    New Brunswick Campus Information
    Newark Campus Information
    Class participation
    Class participation, Spring 2005

    Course Description:

    The objective of this course is to introduce to students the emerging area of electronic commerce and the security challenges and threats in EC, and provide them with an understanding of the state-of-the-art EC security technologies. In particular, this course discusses security requirements for electronic commerce such as identification and authentication, authorization and access control, data integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation, trust, and regulation. It discusses the EC security technologies including internet security, firewalls, cryptography, digital signatures, secure email, public key infrastructure, intellectual property protection and watermarking, Java security, database security, secure electronic payments such as SET (secure electronic transaction), digital cash and digital cheques, and smart card technology, and the related standards and commercial systems.

    Text Book:

    1. Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce, Second Edition by Mostafa Hashem Sherif ISBN 0-8493-1509-3 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
    2. We also use reference material from the web pages linked to the topic.

    Reference Books:

    1. Warwick Ford and Michael S. Baum, Secure Electronic Commerce, Building the infrastructure for digital signatures and encryption , Prentice Hall, Second Edition, ISBN 0-13-027276-0
    2. Details on cryptography can be found in: Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Prentice-Hall.

    Other Reading:

    • Assigned readings of selected articles from journals and magazines.
    • Bruce Schneier, "Secrets & Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World," John Wiley, 2000
    • Electronic CIPHER (http://www.ieee-security.org/cipher.html)
    • Information Security Magazine
    • The Risks Digest (http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks)

    Expected Work:

    Tentative Schedule:

    The schedule is subject to change any time. The notes is posted at least one day in advance.

    Jan 22

    Jan 29

    Feb 5

    Feb 12

    • Internet Security
    • Class notes
    • Chapter 2,5 from the reference text 1

    Feb 19

    Class is Cancelled

    Feb 26

    Mar 5

    Mar 12

    • Mid-term Examination
      (Topics covered until Mar 5)

    Mar 19

    • Spring recess: No Class

    Mar 26

    April 2

    Apr 9

    Apr 16

    Apr 23

    Apr 30