| Date |
Day |
Topic |
Reading Assignment |
Notes |
| 1-Sept. |
Mon. |
Introduction |
Syllabus |
|
| 3-Sept. |
Wed. |
Security Model |
Chapter 1 |
|
| 5-Sept. |
Fri. |
Risk Assessment |
Risk Paper |
Exercise 1 out |
| 8-Sept. |
Mon. |
Why Cryptography is Hard |
Whycrypt Paper |
|
| 10-Sept. |
Wed. |
Symmetric Encryption |
Chapter 2 |
|
| 12-Sept. |
Fri. |
Steganography |
Steg. Paper |
Exercise 1 due |
| 15-Sept. |
Mon. |
Minimal Key Lengths |
Rivest Paper |
|
| 17-Sept. |
Wed. |
More Symmetric Encryption |
Chapter 2 |
|
| 19-Sept. |
Fri. |
Blowfish |
Blowfish Paper |
Exercise 2 out |
| 22-Sept. |
Mon. |
Key Distribution and S-DES |
Chapter 2 and S-DES |
|
| 24-Sept. |
Wed. |
S-DES and
Authentication |
Chapter 3, sections 1 and 2 |
|
| 26-Sept. |
Fri. |
RSA Asymmetric Encryption |
RSA Paper |
Drop Deadline
Exercise 2 due |
| 29-Sept. |
Mon. |
Hash Functions/SHA1 |
Chapter 3, remainder |
|
| 1-Oct. |
Wed. |
Tiger algorithm |
Tiger paper |
|
| 1-Oct. |
Wed. |
Midterm study/review |
|
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| 3-Oct. |
Fri. |
Midterm 1 |
|
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| 6-Oct. |
Mon. |
Authentication Applications |
Chapter 4 |
|
| 8-Oct. |
Wed. |
Kerberos Detail |
Kerberos Paper |
|
| 10-Oct. |
Fri. |
X.509 |
|
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| 13-Oct. |
Mon. |
Electronic Mail Security |
Chapter 5 |
SOSP |
| 15-Oct. |
Wed. |
PGP or S/MIME paper |
|
SOSP |
| 17-Oct. |
Fri. |
Catch-up |
|
|
| 20-Oct. |
Mon. |
IP Security |
Chapter 6 |
PGP Practice HW |
| 22-Oct. |
Wed. |
IP Security |
IPSec Paper |
|
| 24-Oct. |
Fri. |
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|
No class |
| 27-Oct. |
Mon. |
S/MIME and IPsec |
Lecture Notes |
PGP Practice HW Due |
| 29-Oct. |
Wed. |
Decentralized Authentication |
Decentralized Authentication Paper |
|
| 31-Oct. |
Fri. |
Anatomy of an Attack |
Chapter 9 |
|
| 3-Nov. |
Mon. |
There be Dragons/Cracker Assaults |
ATT Paper |
|
| 5-Nov. |
Wed. |
Project Discussion and Midterm study/review |
|
|
| 7-Nov. |
Fri. |
Midterm 2 |
|
|
| 10-Nov. |
Mon. |
Intrusion Detection Systems |
Comm. ACM Paper |
|
| 12-Nov. |
Wed. |
Malicious Software |
Chapter 10 |
|
| 14-Nov. |
Fri. |
Code Red for the Web |
Scientific American Paper |
|
| 17-Nov. |
Mon. |
Firewalls |
Chapter 11 |
|
| 19-Nov. |
Wed. |
Firewalls fend off invasions from the web |
IEEE Spectrum Paper |
|
| 21-Nov. |
Fri. |
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| 24-28-Nov. |
Thanksgiving Break |
| 1-Dec. |
Mon. |
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| 3-Dec. |
Wed. |
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| 5-Dec. |
Fri. |
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| 8-Dec. |
Mon. |
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| 10-Dec. |
Wed. |
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| 12-Dec. |
Fri. |
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Last day of classes |
