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Date

Lecture Title / Reading

Exercises

Homeworks

Project

09/02/08

Intro (bw)
    Anderson Ch. 1, Ch. 22

Ex1

HW1 Out



Computer Security




09/04/08

Overview: What Goes Wrong (bw)

Ex2



09/09/08

Control-flow Vulnerabilities (bw)
    Cowan et al., "Buffer Overflows:..."

Ex3

VM instructions


09/11/08

Defensive Programming & Design I (bw)
    Wheeler, Ch. 6, Ch. 7

Ex4



09/16/08

Defensive Programming & Design II (bw)
    Bernstein, "Some thoughts on security...", CSAW 07

Ex5








09/18/08

Access Control I : Basics (bw)

Ex6


Preproposal

09/23/08

Access Control II : OS Mechanisms (bw)

Ex7



09/25/08

Access Control III : Policies (bw)
     Anderson Ch. 7, Ch. 8 (.1-.2)

Ex8



09/30/08

Trustworthy OS (bw)
    Anderson Ch. 3, Ch. 13, Ch. 23

Ex9

HW1 Due







10/02/08

Database Security/Privacy (bw)

Ex10








10/07/08

Midterm










Network Security




10/09/08

Overview: Protocol & Infrastructure Vulnerabilities (bw)
    Cheswick & Bellovin Ch. 2

Ex11

HW2 Out







10/14/08

Symmetric Cryptography (bw)
    Anderson Ch. 5 (5.1-5.6; skip 5.4)

Ex12



10/16/08

Public-Key Cryptography (bw)
    Anderson Ch. 5 (5.7)

Ex13


Progress Report

10/21/08

Common Crypto Failures (bw)
    Anderson & Needham, "Programming Satan's Computer"

Ex14








10/23/08

Common Network Security Protocols (bw)

Ex15



10/28/08

Web Security (bw)

Ex16



10/30/08

Firewalls (bw)
    Cheswick & Bellovin Ch. 3

Ex17








11/04/08

Intrusion Detection (bw)
    Axelsson, "The base-rate fallacy..."  TISSEC (3):3, 2000.
    Wagner and Soto, "Mimicry attacks on host-based IDS"  CCS 2002

Ex18



11/06/08

Malware (bw)
    Nachenberg, "Computer Virus-Antivirus Evolution." CACM
    Moore et al., "Internet Quarantine:..." INFOCOM 2003

Ex19

HW2 Due


11/11/08

Denial of Service (bw)
     Dietrich et al., "Analyzing DDoS Tools:..." LISA 2000

Ex20








11/13/08

Network privacy (bw)
    Goldberg et al., "Privacy Enhancing..." COMPCON 97

Ex21


Progress Report

11/18/08

Digital Rights Management (bw)
    Haber et al., "...is DRM the Answer?", DRM 2003.

Ex22



11/20/08

Electronic Voting I (bw)
    Wagner et al., "...Review of the Diebold Voting System"
    Jefferson et al., "Analyzing internet voting security." CACM

Ex23



11/25/08   

Electronic Voting II (bw)
    Adidas and Rivest, "Scratch & Vote", ACM WPES 2006
    Chaum et al., "Scantegrity: ...", IEEE S&P 6 (3):40--46, 2008.
Ex24

First Draft

12/02/08

Project Presentations

12/04/08

Project Presentations

12/09/08

Project Presentations

12/09/08

Final Exam Review (bw)



Final Report

12/16/08
10:30am-
12:30p

FINAL EXAM, ME 212 - TUESDAY, 12/16/08, 10:30am



 
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Introduction to Computer Security