Mohammed Alani Blog

Students: BSc in Computer Engineering, BSc in MIS, BSc in Computer Communications Eng

Course Code: CIS326

Reference:

Cryptography and Network Security, 4th Ed., William Stallings, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-187316-2e

Assignment #1

MidTerm Review Question Sheet

Lectures:

1. Lecture 1 Course Description

2. Lecture 2 Introduction

3. Lecture 3 Classical Encryption Techniques

4. Lecture 4 Block Ciphers

5. Lecture 5 Data Encryption Standard

6. Lecture 6 Block Cipher Design Principles

7. Lecture 7 Encryption Examples

    Introduction to Number Theory (By Lawrie Brown).

8. Lecture 8 Assymetric Public Key Cryptography

9. Lecture 9 RSA

10. Lecture 10 Public-Key Cryptography Examples

Students: MSc in CIS

Course Code: GCIS521

References:

1. Internet Security 2003

Man Young Rhee

ISBN 0-470-85285-2

2. Cryptography and Network Security

William Stallings, Prentice Hall

ISBN 978-0-13-187316-2e

Course Resources:

1. Lecture 1 Course Description

2. Lecture 2 Review of Networking Principles

3. Lecture 3 Block Cipher Principles

4. Lecture 4 Data Encryption Standard

5. Lecture 5 Hash Functions, MDs, and MACs

     Introduction to Numbers Theory (by Lawrie Brown)

6. Lecture 6 Assymetric Public-Key Cryptosystems

7. Lecture 7 RSA

8. Lecture 8 Network Layer Security (Part one)

9. Lecture 9 Network Layer Security (Part two)

10. Lecture 10 Network Traffic Filtering.

ABSTRACT
In this thesis a secure IP-Telephony framework is proposed. This framework relies on H.323 and covers two of the most important weaknesses that were in the original H.323 and were not covered in an efficient and easily implementable way. These two weaknesses are secrecy of voice data traveling from one EndPoint to another, and authentication between GateKeepers when calls made are Inter-GateKeeper calls. In the suggested framework, Advanced Encryption Standard and HMAC-SHA1-96 were used to overcome the weak points of the original H.323.
The suggested framework was implemented and tested and has proved strength over most popular IP-Telephony attacks and provided acceptable quality of service as compared to other solutions of the H.323 security loopholes. The implementation was tested for two different scenarios; calls placed on EndPoints laying in the same local area network, and calls made over the Internet with EndPoints laying in different zones.
For the local area network calls, the delay was 61 milliseconds, and the jitter was 8 millisecond, with an average loss of 0.93%. For the Internet-separated EndPoints, the delay was 265 milliseconds, and the jitter was 41 milliseconds, with an average loss of 1.22%. These values were calculated for 1000 calls.
The implementation environment included Asterisk software as the GateKeeper software, and JCPPhone as the EndPoints software. The Asterisk version used was AsteriskNOW beta5-x86. It was installed on Linux servers.
The proposed system has shown more resistance towards the most common three IP-Telephony attacks; toll fraud, eavesdropping, and denial of service. The features of the proposed system were compared with the original H.323 set, Session Initiation Protocol, and H.235 Annex D.

Citation Information:

Mohammed M. Alani,  “Development of a VoIP Security System Based on H.323 Protocol”, PhD Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Nahrain University, May, 2007.

Mohammed M. Alani,  “Development of a VoIP Security System Based on H.323 Protocol”, PhD Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. May, 2007.

ABSTRACT
The paper is aimed to provide a secure IP-Telephony system based on H.323 set of protocols. H.323 is a standard that specifies the components and procedures that provide multimedia communication services—real-time audio, video, and data communications—over packet networks, including Internet protocol (IP)–based networks. H.323 is part of a family of ITU—T recommendations called H.32x that provides multimedia communication services over a variety of networks. From the security aspect, H.323 provides a scheme for authentication between the End Point (EP) and the GateKeeper (GK). However, the authentication between EPs lying on different GKs needs to be considered. Thus, the paper shows a proposed model and implementation with the evaluation of such authentication process. It also provides secrecy for certain users that require such a service. These have been provided by providing authentication for EPs laying on different GKs, as well as providing encryption for the voice data traveling between EPs laying on same GK or different GKs.

Keywords: Computer network, VoIP, IP-Telephony, H.323, and VoIP security.

Citation Information:

Siddeeq Y. Ameen, Fawzi Alnaima, and Mohammed M. Alani, Design of H.323 Secure IP-Telephony Framework, published in The 6th International Philadelphia Engineering Conference On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan, September, 2006.

Students: Computer Engineering Semester 8

References:

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code, by Bruce Schneier

Students: Telecommunications Diploma Semester 5

References:

Cryptography and Network Security, 4th Ed. by William Stallings