CSc 466-566 Computer Security - Schedule

Introduction

Week 1

Lecture #1, Wed, Jan 11: Administrivia, Introduction

Grading policy
Course content
Read Goodrich, Tamassia Computer Security: Chapter 1
Lecture note #0 (Administrivia) is now available.
We covered slides 1-100 (100 slides) in lecture #0 (Administrivia) .
100 total number of slides, 100 slides per lecture

Week 2

Holiday, Mon, Jan 16: MLK

Lecture #2, Wed, Jan 18: Introduction

Lecture note #1 (Introduction --- Terminology) is now available.
Lecture note #2 (Introduction --- Mechanisms) is now available.
Read Goodrich, Tamassia Computer Security: Chapter 1
We covered slides 1-53 (53 slides) in lecture #1 (Introduction --- Terminology) .
153 total number of slides, 76.5 slides per lecture

Week 3

Lecture #3, Mon, Jan 23: Introduction

Lecture note #3 (Physical Security) is now available.
Lecture note #4 (Cryptography --- Introduction) is now available.
We covered slides 54-81 (28 slides) in lecture #1 (Introduction --- Terminology) .
We covered slides 1-59 (59 slides) in lecture #2 (Introduction --- Mechanisms) .
240 total number of slides, 80 slides per lecture

Lecture #4, Wed, Jan 25: Cryptographic Primitives

Read Goodrich, Tamassia Computer Security: Section 8.1
We covered slides 60-80 (21 slides) in lecture #2 (Introduction --- Mechanisms) .
We covered slides 1-15 (15 slides) in lecture #4 (Cryptography --- Introduction) .
276 total number of slides, 69 slides per lecture

Week 4

Lecture #5, Mon, Jan 30: Physical Security

Read Goodrich, Tamassia Computer Security: Chapter 2
We covered slides 1-24 (24 slides) in lecture #3 (Physical Security) .
300 total number of slides, 60 slides per lecture

Lecture #6, Wed, Feb 1: Physical Security

Lecture note #5 (Cryptography --- Basics) is now available.
We covered slides 25-68 (44 slides) in lecture #3 (Physical Security) .
344 total number of slides, 57.3333 slides per lecture

Week 5

Lecture #7, Mon, Feb 6: TBD

We covered slides 69-102 (34 slides) in lecture #3 (Physical Security) .
We covered slides 16-31 (16 slides) in lecture #4 (Cryptography --- Introduction) .
394 total number of slides, 56.2857 slides per lecture

Lecture #8, Wed, Feb 8: Introduction to cryptography

We covered slides 32-51 (20 slides) in lecture #4 (Cryptography --- Introduction) .
We covered slides 1-37 (37 slides) in lecture #5 (Cryptography --- Basics) .
451 total number of slides, 56.375 slides per lecture

Week 6

Lecture #9, Mon, Feb 13: Introduction to cryptography

We covered slides 37-84 (48 slides) in lecture #5 (Cryptography --- Basics) .
499 total number of slides, 55.4444 slides per lecture

Lecture #10, Wed, Feb 15: Public key cryptography

Lecture note #7 (Cryptography --- Public Key) is now available.
We covered slides 1-25 (25 slides) in lecture #7 (Cryptography --- Public Key) .
524 total number of slides, 52.4 slides per lecture

Week 7

Lecture #11, Mon, Feb 20: Public key cryptography

Lecture note #6 (Cryptography --- Symmetric Key) is now available.
Lecture note #8 (Cryptography --- Digital Signatures) is now available.
We covered slides 26-75 (50 slides) in lecture #7 (Cryptography --- Public Key) .
574 total number of slides, 52.1818 slides per lecture

Lecture #12, Wed, Feb 22: Digital Signatures

We covered slides 76-84 (9 slides) in lecture #7 (Cryptography --- Public Key) .
We covered slides 1-14 (14 slides) in lecture #8 (Cryptography --- Digital Signatures) .
597 total number of slides, 49.75 slides per lecture

Week 8

Lecture #13, Mon, Feb 27: Digital Signatures

We covered slides 1-34 (34 slides) in lecture #8 (Cryptography --- Digital Signatures) .
Lecture note #9 (Operating Systems --- Introduction) is now available.
We covered slides 1-43 (43 slides) in lecture #9 (Operating Systems --- Introduction) .
674 total number of slides, 51.8462 slides per lecture

Lecture #14, Wed, Feb 29: Operating system security

We covered slides 44-63 (20 slides) in lecture #9 (Operating Systems --- Introduction) .
694 total number of slides, 49.5714 slides per lecture

Week 9

Lecture #15, Mon, Mar 5: Operating system security

Lecture note #11 (Midterm Review) is now available.
We covered slides 64-118 (55 slides) in lecture #9 (Operating Systems --- Introduction) .
749 total number of slides, 49.9333 slides per lecture

Lecture #16, Wed, Mar 7: Midterm review

We covered slides 1-20 (20 slides) in lecture #11 (Midterm Review) .
769 total number of slides, 48.0625 slides per lecture

Week 10

Holiday, Mon, Mar 12: Spring Break

Holiday, Wed, Mar 14: Spring Break

Exam cheat-sheet is available here. Week 11

Lecture #17, Mon, Mar 19: Midterm exam

769 total number of slides, 45.2353 slides per lecture

Lecture #18, Wed, Mar 21: Application Security

Lecture note #10 (Operating Systems --- Application Security) is now available.
We covered slides 1-30 (30 slides) in lecture #10 (Operating Systems --- Application Security) .
799 total number of slides, 44.3889 slides per lecture

Week 12

Lecture #19, Mon, Mar 26: Malware

We covered slides 31-55 (25 slides) in lecture #10 (Operating Systems --- Application Security) .
Lecture note #12 (Malware) is now available.
We covered slides 1-37 (37 slides) in lecture #12 (Malware) .
Lecture note #13 (Man-At-The-End --- Introduction) is now available.
Lecture note #14 (Man-At-The-End --- Attack Models) is now available.
Lecture note #15 (Man-At-The-End --- Program Analysis) is now available.
Lecture note #16 (Man-At-The-End --- Obfuscation) is now available.
Lecture note #17 (Man-At-The-End --- Tamperproofing) is now available.
861 total number of slides, 45.3158 slides per lecture

Lecture #20, Wed, Mar 28: Man-At-The-End Attacks and Defenses

We covered slides 38-73 (36 slides) in lecture #12 (Malware) .
Lecture note #13 (Man-At-The-End --- Introduction) is now available.
Lecture note #14 (Man-At-The-End --- Attack Models) is now available.
Lecture note #15 (Man-At-The-End --- Program Analysis) is now available.
Lecture note #16 (Man-At-The-End --- Obfuscation) is now available.
Lecture note #17 (Man-At-The-End --- Tamperproofing) is now available.
We covered slides 1-74 (74 slides) in lecture #13 (Man-At-The-End --- Introduction) .
971 total number of slides, 48.55 slides per lecture

Week 13

Lecture #21, Mon, Apr 2: Man-At-The-End Attacks and Defenses

We covered slides 1-44 (44 slides) in lecture #14 (Man-At-The-End --- Attack Models) .
We covered slides 1-22 (22 slides) in lecture #15 (Man-At-The-End --- Program Analysis) .
We covered slides 1-82 (82 slides) in lecture #16 (Man-At-The-End --- Obfuscation) .
1119 total number of slides, 53.2857 slides per lecture

Lecture #22, Wed, Apr 4: Man-At-The-End Attacks and Defenses

We covered slides 1-78 (78 slides) in lecture #17 (Man-At-The-End --- Tamperproofing) .
1197 total number of slides, 54.4091 slides per lecture

Week 14

Lecture #23, Mon, Apr 9: Network security

Lecture note #18 (Network Security --- Introduction) is now available.
We covered slides 1-81 (81 slides) in lecture #18 (Network Security --- Introduction) .
1278 total number of slides, 55.5652 slides per lecture