COS 432: Information SecurityFall 2003 |
General information
Schedule Homework |
Schedule is subject to change. Please re-check this page periodically.
| Date | Lecture topic | Homework Due |
| Thu 11 Sep | How to Think About Security | |
| Tue 16 Sep | Storing data securely on insecure media: integrity | |
| Thu 18 Sep | Authenticating people | Assignment 0: Warmup |
| Tue 23 Sep | Message authentication codes and random numbers | |
| Thu 25 Sep | Stream ciphers | |
| Tue 30 Sep | Block ciphers | Assignment 1: User Authentication |
| Thu 2 Oct | TBD (probably guest lecture) | |
| Tue 7 Oct | Public-key crypto | |
| Thu 9 Oct | Key exchange and key management | Assignment 2: Encrypted Sockets |
| Tue 14 Oct | Putting it together: The SSH protocol | |
| Thu 15 Oct | Protecting Hosts from Malicious Programs | |
| Tue 21 Oct | Buggy programs and security | Assignment 3: Design Review for Encrypted Sockets |
| Thu 23 Oct | Midterm exam | |
| Tue 4 Nov | Access control | |
| Thu 6 Nov | Information Flow and Multi-Level Security | Assignment 4: Key Exchange |
| Tue 11 Nov | Network Security: Protecting the Infrastructure | |
| Thu 13 Nov | Firewalls and Virtual Private Networks | Assignment 5: Design Review for Key Exchange |
| Tue 18 Nov | Privacy and anonymity | |
| Thu 20 Nov | E-commerce security | |
| Tue 25 Apr | E-Commerce Security: Off-line systems | |
| Tue 2 Dec | Formal methods | Assignment 6: Lottery Security Design |
| Thu 4 Dec | Protecting programs against hosts | |
| Tue 9 Dec | Intellectual property and copy protection | |
| Thu 11 Dec | TBD | Assignment 7: Design Review for Lottery Security |
| TBD | Final Exam |