18-630 / 19-631 / 95-830 Syllabus (Fall 2005) 

Date

Topic

Homeworks

Readings

Aug 29

Introduction


Anderson

Aug 31

Basic security properties

HW 0 out

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

Sep 5

Labor Day, no class

 

 

Sep 7

Basic policy overview

HW 0 due

Anderson chapter 21, available on blackboard

Sep 12

Cryptography basics (public key)

 

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

Sep 14

Cryptography basics (secret key)

HW1 out

Again HAC Chapter 1 (no reading critique needed), Lamport (submit reading critique)

Sep 19

Crypto basics, security protocols

 

Abadi-Needham, (optional: Kaufman-Perlman-Speciner 2.3-2.6, 3.1-3.3, 5.1-5.2, 5.5-5.7, 6.1-6.4)

Sep 21

Security protocols 1

 

Anderson-Needham

Sep 26

Electronic voting (Juan Caballero)

HW1 due

Kohno (reading critique needed), Kocher-Schneier (no reading critique needed)

Sep 28

OS basics, buffer overruns 1

 

Aleph One, Cowan - I

Oct 3

Buffer overruns 2

HW2 out

Wilander, Cowan - II 

Oct 5

OS protection mechanisms and confinement

 

Saltzer-Schroeder (read Section I, Sections II(ABC) are optional, Sections II(DE) and III are not needed)

Oct 10

Security protocols 2

 

Borisov

Oct 12

TCG

HW2 due

Sailer

Oct 17

Midterm review

 

 

Oct 19

Midterm exam

 

 

Oct 24

Worms and viruses (Ahren Studer)

 

Staniford, Nachenberg 

Oct 26

Privacy policy (Lorrie Cranor)


Cranor1, Cranor2

Oct 31

Networking basics, IP vulnerabilities

 

Bellovin

Nov 2

PKI basics / naming

HW3 out

Reading on Blackboard (KPS Chap 15), Ellison

Nov 7

SSL / TLS


Reading on Blackboard (Stallings Chap 17)

Nov 9

Secure password protocols, key establishment

 

Bellovin-Merritt

Nov 14

Human factors and security (Cynthia Kuo)

HW 3 due

Whitten (critique needed), Dourish (optional, no critique needed)

Nov 16

DDoS attacks and defenses 1

HW4 out

Savage

Nov 21

DDoS attacks and defenses 2

 

Yaar

Nov 23

Thanksgiving Holiday, no class

 


Nov 28

DDoS attacks and defenses 3

 

(no reading :-)

Nov 30

Review lecture 1

HW4 due

No reading, only submit 3 questions as reading critique.

Dec 5

Broadcast security

 

Perrig

Dec 7

Review lecture 2

 

No reading, only submit 3 questions as reading critique. 

Dec ??

 Final exam