Coop Computer Security track

The Coop Computer Security track adds on top of the Regular baseline the cryptographic toolkit, network audit and computer forensics.

Metapackage: aims-os-security

On an existing Debian:

sudo apt install aims-os-security

(Pulls aims-os-math automatically if not already there.)

What’s added

Cryptography

• python3-cryptography (modern primitives: AEAD, X.509, KDF)
• python3-pycryptodome, the drop-in PyCrypto cited in the lecture notes

Qiskit (Quantum Computing course) is not packaged in a current version. Install on demand:

pipx install qiskit
# or
mamba install -c conda-forge qiskit

Network audit

• nmap (port / service scan)
• wireshark for packet capture and analysis; dumpcap setuid, see below
• tcpdump (CLI capture)
• python3-scapy for packet crafting

Cracking

• john (John the Ripper): password cracking
• hashcat: GPU-accelerated hash cracking
• aircrack-ng: Wi-Fi audit

Forensics

• sleuthkit: filesystem and disk analysis
• foremost: file carving
• binwalk: firmware analysis and extraction

Wireshark without sudo

On the AIMS OS ISO, dumpcap is already configured setuid root (wireshark-common/install-setuid=true via preseed). The first-boot service adds your account to the wireshark group at first boot.

On a standalone apt install, debconf asks you at apt install wireshark whether you want the setuid. Answer “yes”, then:

sudo usermod -aG wireshark $USER
newgrp wireshark
# or logout / login

Courses covered

• Auditing Computer Forensics and Investigation
• Computer Network
• Computer Security 1: Network Security
• Computer Security: Case studies from industries
• Ethical Hacking
• Mathematical Model for Network Security
• Post Quantum Cryptography
• Quantum Mechanics and Computing (partial libs, Qiskit on-demand)

See the full mapping for the breakdown.