Network Programming 7.5 credits

The course introduces to the Internet’s architecture and the TCP/IP-protocols but focuses thereafter on the OSI-model’s upper layers (session, presentation and application). The course contains the following topics: - Introduction to computer networks and the OSI-model - Introduction to the TCP/IP-protocols - Client/server notion - Socket programming - Scripting language - Certain standard services and their protocols (Telnet, HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc.) - How secure communication can be achieved with authentication and encryption (HTTPS, DNSSEC, S/MIME, PGP, etc.) - Principles of data compression for text and image - Decentralized architectures (Tor, Bitcoin, GPG, etc.)