CIS4360/5379: Computer Security Fundamentals, Spring 2026

 

Announcements
   
2/18: Hw1 is up. Deadline is Tuesday 3/3.

         We'll have a quiz on Thursday 2/26. There will be 4 questions: (1) DoS attack, (2) Sniffing and Spoofing, (3) DNS attack, (4) TCP attack.
         For (1), a good preparation is Exercise 1. For (2) and (3), you should review Lab 2 and the practice lab of Sniffing and Spoofing. For (4), review the TCP automated hijacking attack of Lab 1.

                         
            
                                                                                                                        
              
Course information

• Lectures to date - grow with each class.
• Course information sheet. 
• Instructor: Viet Tung Hoang (Tung). Email: vhoang@fsu.edu. Office hours: MW, 3pm - 4 pm, virtual. See Canvas for Zoom link. 
• TA: Sajib Biswas. Email: sbiswas@fsu.edu. Office hours: F 3pm - 3pm, MCH 114C.

Latex Resources

• Homework solution must be typed via LaTeX. LaTeX is the standard for typesetting scientific papers, and will likely come in handy outside CIS 4360. (Lab reports can be typed via MS Word.)

• Homework template: Here's a Latex template (sample.tex) for typesetting homework and the pdf file (sample.pdf) that it produces. The file needs an image file ecb.pdf. 

• Guides to using LaTeX: An introduction to LaTeX can be found here. Another guide can be found at Wikibooks.

• Online Environments: If you don't want to install LaTeX, ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are online environments which compile previews of your LaTeX documents as you type.

• LaTeX Editors: There are many LaTeX editors which allow you to use GUI to edit your LaTeX. LyX is a free one.

• Finding symbols: Detexify lets you draw the symbol that you are looking for and get LaTeX code. A static guide is here.

Online Crypto Resources

• Introduction to Modern Cryptography, accessible graduate lecture notes by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway.
• The Joy of Cryptography, undergraduate textbook by Mike Rosulek.

Slides and scribes

• Logistics
• Lecture 0: Introduction. 
• Lecture 1: Network Security
• Lecture 2: Crypto
• Lecture 3: Blockcipher
• Lecture 4: Web Security
• Lecture 5: Software Security
  
• Lecture 6: Symmetric Encryption
• Lecture 7: Message Authentication Code (MAC)
• Lecture 8: Hash Functions
• Lecture 9: Asymmetric Crypto
• Lecture 10: Public-Key Encryption
• Lecture 11: Digital Signature. 
• Lecture 12: Public-key Infrastructure. 

         

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Last updated: 2/18/2026