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Weekly Calendar for Computer Security

[Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3] [Week 4] [Week 5]
[Week 6] [Week 7] [Week 8] [Week 9] [Week 10]
[Week 11] [Week 12] [Week 13] [Week 14] [Week 15]

Assignment code

E - Exercise (do not need to turn in).
H - Homework (need to turn in hardcopy).
P - Programming projects.
Q - Quizzes.
M - Midterm exam.

Week 1

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Class Organizations General Introduction	General Introduction	Chapter 1	Syllabus ( PDF Format)
Wednesday	General Introduction (Continued) Classic ciphers	Classic ciphers	Chapter 2
Friday	Classic ciphers (Continued) Stream ciphers	Stream ciphers	3.2 6.3 (Not required for exams)			H: homework #1 (Due 9/8/2014)

Week 2

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers/Examples	Assignments
Wednesday	Stream ciphers (continued) Block ciphers	Block ciphers	3.3.1, 6.4.4, 6.4.5 (not required for exams), 6.4.6 (not required for exams), 6.4.7		"Breaking WEP Under 60 Seconds" (not required for exams) TDES
Friday	Block ciphers (continued)		3.3.2 - 3.3.7, 3.4, 3.5

Week 3

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Block ciphers (continued)	Same as last time				H: homework #2 (Due 9/22/2014)
Wednesday	Block ciphers (continued) Public Key Crypto	Public Key Crypto	4.1-4.4 6.5 (not required for exams) 6.6
Friday	Public Key Crypto (Continued)		4.5-4.8

Week 4

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Public Key Crypto (Continued)		4.5-4.8
Wednesday	Public Key Crypto (Continued)		4.5-4.8			H: homework #3 (Due 10/1/2014)
Friday	Hash Functions	Hash Functions	5.1-5.6

Week 5

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Hash Functions (Continued)		5.7-5.9
Wednesday	Hash Functions (Continued)		5.7-5.9
Friday	Authentication (Continued)	Local Authentication	7.1-7.3

Week 6

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Authentication (Continued) Authorization	Authorization Part I	8.1-8.4
Wednesday	Authentication (Continued) Authorization	Authorization Part I	8.1-8.4
Friday	Authorization (Continued) Insider Threat (not required for exams)	Insider Threat	8.5-8.7			H: Homework #4 (Due 10/13/2014)

Week 7

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Authorization (Continued) Simple Authentication Protocols	Simple Authentication	9.1-9.3
Wednesday	Simple Authentication Protocols (Continued)	(Same as last time)	9.3-9.5			H: Homework #5 (Due 10/27/2014)
Friday	Simple Authentication Protocols (Continued)	(Same as last time)	9.3-9.5

Week 8

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Midterm Exam Review	Midterm Exam Review
Wednesday	Real-World Security Protocols (Will NOT be on the midterm exam but will be on the final exam)	Real-World Security	10.1-10.3
Friday (Oct. 17)	Midterm Exam

Week 9

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Midterm Exam Summary					H: homework #6 (Due 11/12/2014) H: homework #8 (Due 12/3/2014) P: Term Project Guideline (Brief proposal due: 11/10/2014; final report due: 5:00pm, 12/12/2014)
Wednesday	Real-World Security Protocols (Continued)		10.6-10.8
Friday	Real-World Security Protocols (Continued)		10.6-10.8

Week 10

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Real-World Security Protocols (Continued)
Wednesday	Real-World Security Protocols (Continued)
Friday	Real-World Security Protocols (Continued)					Q: In-class quiz #2

Week 11

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Software Flaws and Malware	Software Flaws and Malware	11.1-11.3, 11.5-11.6
Wednesday	Software Flaws and Malware (Continued)
Friday	Software Flaws and Malware (Continued)					H: Homework #7 (Due 11/21/2014)

Week 12

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	SRE and DRM	SRE and DRM	12.2-12.3
Wednesday	SRE and DRM (Continued)
Friday	Secure Software Development	Secure Software Development	12.4

Week 13

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Secure Software Development Operating System Security	Operating System Security	Chapter 13
Wednesday	Operating System Security (Continued)
Friday	Operating System Security (Continued)	SELinux and Windows Case Studies

Week 14

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Operating System Security (Continued) Web Security	Android Security Web Security	OWASP Top 10
Wednesday	Thanksgiving	No class
Friday	Thanksgiving	No class

Week 15

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Monday	Review for the final exam	Review for Final Exam
Wednesday	Review for the final exam (Continued) Questions and answers
Friday	Case studies of real world security vulnerabilities DDOS and Defenses Advanced Topics and Summary (Information Flow, Tempest, and So on) (Not on the final exam)	Stuxnet DDOS Tempest HiStar

Final Exam Week

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Wednesday	December 10, 12:30 - 2:30PM					Final Exam (Cumulative)

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