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Date |
Topic |
Homeworks |
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Aug 25 |
Basic security intro |
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Aug 27 |
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)) |
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Sep 1 |
Labor Day, no class |
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Sep 3 |
Cryptography basics (public key) |
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(no reading critique needed) Stallings 2.3, HAC Chapter 1 (Sections 1.3, 1.5, 1.8 to 1.11), PGP intro |
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Sep 8 |
Cryptography basics (secret key) |
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(no reading critique
needed) Stallings 2.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.4 |
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Sep 10 |
Cryptography basics (AES, modes) |
HW1 out |
(no reading critique needed) Stallings 19.3, 19.5 |
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Sep 15 |
Crypto basics (remainder) |
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Sep 17 |
Security protocols 1 |
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(no reading critique
needed) Abadi-Needham
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Sep 22 |
Security protocols 2 |
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(from now on, reading
critique needed for all subsequent papers, unless explicitely stated
that no critique needed) Anderson-Needham
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Sep 24 |
Security protocols 3 |
HW1 due |
Borisov
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Sep 29 |
Intro to Security Policy |
HW2 out |
(critique already submitted) Anderson, (no critique needed:) Anderson chapter 21 (pages 455-472) |
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Oct 1 |
Basic OS Security |
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(no reading critique
needed) Stallings Chapter 4 |
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Oct 6 |
Buffer
overruns |
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(no reading critique needed) Stallings Chapter 11 |
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Oct 8 |
Secure password protocols (Tassos) |
HW2 due |
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Oct 13 |
Midterm review |
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Oct 15 |
Midterm exam |
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Oct 20 |
TCG |
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(optional
reading) Grawrock Chapter 8, available on blackboard |
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Oct 22 |
Networking
basics, IP vulnerabilities |
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(no critique needed, focus on Sections 2 and 7) Bellovin |
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Oct 27 |
Zero Knowledge (Tassos) |
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(no critique needed) Guillou-Quisquater
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Oct 29 |
PKI basics / naming (Tassos) |
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Reading on Blackboard, no critique needed (KPS Chap 15),
(optional reading, no critique needed Ellison) |
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Nov 3 |
TCG / networking basics / 802.11
vulnerabilities |
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Take another look at the reading from Sep 24. |
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Nov 5 |
SSL/TLS 1 |
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(no critique needed) Stallings Chapter 21.1 |
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Nov 10 |
SSL/TLS 2 |
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Wendlandt,
(no critique needed) Perspectives
project page |
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Nov 12 |
Worms and viruses (Franck Le) |
HW 3 due, HW4 out |
Staniford,
(no critique needed) Stallings 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, (optional reading, no
critique needed) Nachenberg
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Nov 17 |
DDoS
attacks and defenses 1 |
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(no critique needed) Moore
, (no critique needed) Stallings Chapter 8 |
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Nov 19 |
DDoS attacks and defenses 2 |
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Yaar |
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Nov 24 |
Broadcast authentication |
HW4 due |
TESLA
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Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving Holiday, no class |
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Dec 1 |
Human
factors and security |
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Dec 3 |
Final review |
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TBA |
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