CSCI 4541 Study Guide - Final Guide: Choke Point, Cable Modem, Antivirus Software

• School: GWU
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CSCI 4541
• Professor: Mohamed Tamer Abdelrahman Refaei

Document Summary

Note: this document contains a cohesive compilation of all lecture notes from the first half of the semester, including figures, tables, and diagrams from the slides. The majority of this information comes from the lecture slides, as well as information the professor gets from the textbook. Rsa: secret key encrypted by receiver"s rsa public key. Fixed diffie-hellman: server"s cert includes dh public parameters. Generate client public, private, and dh key (are all in the server certificate) Ephemeral diffie-hellman: one-time dh keys signed by sender"s rsa public key. Each time the server and the client are negotiating to determine a public key, but the dh keys are created each time. P || alpha || dh private key || signature. P and alpha are client and server. Purpose of all of this is to create an encrypted session. Anonymous diffie-hellman: exchange unauthenticated dh public parameters. Server key exchange includes dh public parameters.