Date |
Topic |
Homeworks |
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Aug 28 |
Introduction |
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Aug 30 |
Basic security properties |
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HAC Chapter 1 (Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 (other sections are optional)) |
Sep 4 |
Labor Day, no class |
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Sep 6 |
Basic policy overview |
HW 0 due |
Anderson,
Anderson
chapter 21 (pages 455-472) |
Sep 11 |
Cryptography basics (public key) |
|
HAC Chapter 1 (Sections 1.3, 1.5, 1.8 to 1.11, no reading critique needed), PGP intro (reading critique needed), [optional reading available on blackboard, no critique needed: TW-number-theory (pp. 63-75 in TW), TW-modular-exponentiation (pp. 78-84 in TW), and TW-RSA (pp. 164-176 in TW)] |
Sep 13 |
Cryptography basics (secret key) |
HW1 out |
TW-classical-cryptosystems
(pp. 12-30 in TW), TW-block-ciphers (pp. 34-43 in TW), both are
available on blackboard |
Sep 18 |
Cryptography basics (AES, modes) |
|
TW-DES-and-modes-of-operation (pp. 123-143 in TW), TW-AES (pp. 151-161 in TW), both are available on blackboard |
Sep 20 |
Crypto basics |
|
Abadi-Needham
|
Sep 25 |
Crypto basics |
|
Anderson-Needham |
Sep 27 |
Security protocols 1 |
HW1 due |
Borisov |
Oct 2 |
Security protocols 2 |
HW2 out |
no reading |
Oct 4 |
OS basics, buffer overruns 1 |
|
Aleph One, Cowan - I |
Oct 9 |
Buffer overruns 2 |
|
Wilander, Cowan - II |
Oct 11 |
TCG (Mark Luk) |
HW2 due |
|
Oct 16 |
Midterm review |
|
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Oct 18 |
Midterm exam |
|
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Oct 23 |
Legal aspects of security (Dave Farber) |
|
(no reading, no critique) |
Oct 25 |
Wiretapping laws (Dave Farber) |
|
(no critique) read CALEA
info page, read some articles on EPIC wiretapping page |
Oct 30 |
Worms and viruses (Ting-Fang Yen) |
|
Staniford, Nachenberg |
Nov 1 |
Networking basics, IP vulnerabilities |
|
Bellovin |
Nov 6 |
PKI
basics / naming |
|
Reading on Blackboard (KPS Chap 15), Ellison |
Nov 8 |
SSL / TLS |
|
Reading on Blackboard (Stallings Chap 17) |
Nov 13 |
DDoS attacks and defenses 1 |
|
Savage |
Nov 15 |
Human factors and security (Cynthia Kuo) |
HW 3 due, HW4 out |
Whitten (critique needed), Dourish (optional reading, no critique needed) |
Nov 20 |
DDoS attacks and defenses 2 |
|
Yaar |
Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving Holiday, no class |
|
|
Nov 27 |
Secure password protocols, key establishment |
|
Bellovin-Merritt |
Nov 29 |
Secure
sensor networks (Mark Luk) |
HW4 due |
SPINS
|
Dec 4 |
Broadcast
authentication |
|
TESLA |
Dec 6 |
Review lecture (Ting-Fang) |
|
(no reading) |
Dec 15, 9am |
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