18-630 / 19-631 / 95-830 Syllabus (Fall 2008) 

Date

Topic

Homeworks

Readings

Aug 25

Basic security intro



Aug 27

Basic security properties


HAC Chapter 1 (Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 (other sections are optional))

Sep 1

Labor Day, no class

 

 

Sep 3

Cryptography basics (public key)


(no reading critique needed) Stallings 2.3, HAC Chapter 1 (Sections 1.3, 1.5, 1.8 to 1.11), PGP intro 

Sep 8

Cryptography basics (secret key)

 

(no reading critique needed) Stallings 2.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.4

Sep 10

Cryptography basics (AES, modes)

HW1 out

(no reading critique needed) Stallings 19.3, 19.5

Sep 15

Crypto basics (remainder)

 


Sep 17

Security protocols 1

 

(no reading critique needed) Abadi-Needham

Sep 22

Security protocols 2

 

(from now on, reading critique needed for all subsequent papers, unless explicitely stated that no critique needed) Anderson-Needham

Sep 24

Security protocols 3

HW1 due

Borisov 

Sep 29

Intro to Security Policy

HW2 out

(critique already submitted) Anderson, (no critique needed:) Anderson chapter 21 (pages 455-472)

Oct 1

Basic OS Security

 

(no reading critique needed) Stallings Chapter 4

Oct 6

Buffer overruns

 

(no reading critique needed) Stallings Chapter 11

Oct 8

Secure password protocols (Tassos)

HW2 due

Bellovin-Merrit

Oct 13

Midterm review

 


Oct 15

Midterm exam

 

 

Oct 20

TCG

 

(optional reading) Grawrock Chapter 8, available on blackboard

Oct 22

Networking basics, IP vulnerabilities


(no critique needed, focus on Sections 2 and 7) Bellovin 

Oct 27

Zero Knowledge (Tassos)

 

(no critique needed) Guillou-Quisquater 

Oct 29

PKI basics / naming (Tassos)

HW3 out

Reading on Blackboard, no critique needed (KPS Chap 15), (optional reading, no critique needed Ellison)

Nov 3

TCG / networking basics / 802.11 vulnerabilities


Take another look at the reading from Sep 24.

Nov 5

SSL/TLS 1


(no critique needed) Stallings Chapter 21.1

Nov 10

SSL/TLS 2


Wendlandt, (no critique needed) Perspectives project page

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 

Nov 17

DDoS attacks and defenses 1

 

(no critique needed) Moore , (no critique needed) Stallings Chapter 8

Nov 19

DDoS attacks and defenses 2

 

Yaar

Nov 24

Broadcast authentication

HW4 due

TESLA

Nov 26

Thanksgiving Holiday, no class



Dec 1

Human factors and security

 

Whitten, (optional reading, no critique needed) Dourish

Dec 3

Final review

 


TBA

 Final exam