Computer Security, Spring 2011

Lectures are at 9:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Room 205 MacLean Hall. Subject to change!

Wed Jan 19 Overview of Computer Security (Wikipedia and Reflections on Cybersecurity)

Fri Jan 21 Language Level inSecurity

Mon Jan 24 Activation Records on the Stack [last free drop]

Wed Jan 26 Buffer Overflow Attacks (Wikipedia)

Fri Jan 28 A complete attack example

Mon Jan 31 Memory Management Units and Unix [last add, last drop without W]

Wed Feb 2 The Unix/Linux system interface

Fri Feb 4 What is a System Call

Mon Feb 7 Passing parameters to system calls

Wed Feb 9 The need for parameter validation

Fri Feb 11 Unix Shell Programming

Mon Feb 14 Shell Injection Attacks

Wed Feb 16

Fri Feb 18

Mon Feb 21 The Unix File System

Wed Feb 23 Access Rights

Fri Feb 25 The Access Matrix

Mon Feb 28 Access Control Lists and Capabilty Lists

Wed Mar 2 Dynamic Protection Mechanisms

Fri Mar 4

Mon Mar 7 Midterm Exam

Wed Mar 9 Cryptography (Wikipedia) [midterm day] [Western Christian Ash Wednesday]

Fri Mar 11 Randomness

-- Spring Break --

Mon Mar 21 From Checksums to Secure Hash Functions

Wed Mar 23 Trapdoor Functions

Fri Mar 25

Mon Mar 28 Trapdoors, Cookies and Amoeba

Wed Mar 30 Diffie Hellman Key Exchange

Fri Apr 1 Public Key Cryptography

Mon Apr 4 Smart Cards and Thumb Drives [last undergrad drop]

Wed Apr 6 Smart Cards and Thumb Drives

Fri Apr 8 Smart Card and Thumb Drive Applications

Mon Apr 11 Smart Card Internals and Vulnerabilities [last undergraduate withdraw]

Wed Apr 13 Visual Cryptography

Fri Apr 15 Scantegrity II voting

Mon Apr 18 Threat Analysis [preregistration begins]

Wed Apr 20 Hierarchic Security [Jewish Passover day 2]

Fri Apr 22 The OSI network model (Wikipedia) [Jewish Passover day 4] [Christian Good Friday]

Mon Apr 25 Routers and Firewalls [Jewish Passover day 7]

Wed Apr 27 From Firewalls to Honeypots

Fri Apr 29 Disaster Planning

Mon May 2 Red Herrings

Wed May 4

Fri May 6 Review

Wed May 11 FINAL EXAM, 12:00 PM