Below is the calendar for this semester course. This is the preliminary schedule, which will be altered as the semester progresses. It is the responsibility of the students to frequently check this web-page for schedule, readings, and assignment changes. As the professor, I will attempt to announce any change to the class, but this web-page should be viewed as authoritative. If you have any questions, please contact me (contact information is available at the course homepage).


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Date Topic Assignments
Due
Readings for Discussion
(do readings before class)
08/25/20 Introduction
Assignment 0 (Due: 08/28/2020, 11:59pm)
08/27/20 Malware
09/01/20 Program Vulnerabilities
Project 1 release (Due: 09/21/2020, 11:59pm)
Stackguard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer Overflow Attacks. C. Crispin, et al., 7th USENIX Security Symposium, 1998. link
09/03/20 Return-Oriented Programming
Review for "Return-Oriented Programming" paper. review template
Return-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications. R. Roemer, E. Buchanan, H. Shacham, and S. Savage, ACM Trans. Info. Sys. Security 15(1):2, March 2012. link
09/08/20 Return-Oriented Programming
Safe Programming
Secure Programming HOWTO. D. Wheeler, Sections 2 and 6. link
09/10/20 Safe Programming
Secure Programming
Authentication
Secure Programming HOWTO. D. Wheeler, Sections 2 and 6. link
Reflections on Trusting Trust. K. Thompson, Turing Award Lecture, 1983. link
Guess again (and again and again): Measuring password strength by simulating password-cracking algorithms. P. G. Kelley et al., IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2012. link
09/15/20 Authentication
Cryptography
Text: Chapter 2 and 3 link
09/17/20 Cryptography
Why Cryptosystems Fail. R. Anderson, 1st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 1993. link
Text: Chapter 2 link
09/22/20 Cryptography
Public Key Cryptosystems
Project 1 due,
Project 2 release (Due: 10/12/2020, 11:59pm)
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems. R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman, Communications of the ACM, 21(2):120-126, 1978. link
Text: Chapter 3 link
09/24/20 Cryptography
Public Key Cryptosystems
Review for "Needham-Schroeder" paper
Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers. R. Needham and M. Schroeder, CACM, December 1978. link
Text: Chapter 4 link
09/29/20 Public Key Cryptosystems
Authentication Protocols
Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Computer Networks. B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Ts'o, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September 1994. link
Text: Chapter 4, 8 link
10/01/20 Public Key Cryptosystems
Authentication Protocols
Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Computer Networks. B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Ts'o, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September 1994. link
Text: Chapter 4, 8, 11 link
10/06/20 Authentication Protocols
Network Security Vulnerabilities
Review for SSH paper
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability, S. Freidl. link
SSH - Secure Login Connections Over the Internet. T. Ylonen. USENIX Security 1996. link
Text: Chapter 11 link
10/08/20 Mid-term Exam: 12:05-1:20 (regular time)
10/13/20 Network Security Vulnerabilities
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability, S. Freidl. link
Text: Chapter 10 link
10/15/20
Network Security Vulnerabilities
Network Security Protocols
Project 2 Due,
Research project release
10/20/20
Network Security Protocols
Firewalls
The Beginner's Guide to iptables: Linux Firewall, How-To Geek. link
FIREMAN: a toolkit for FIREwall Modeling and ANalysis. L. Yuan et al. IEEE Security and Privacy 2006. link
Text: Section 8.9 link
10/22/20 Firewalls
10/27/20
Access Control
Mandatory Access Control
Text: Chapter 5 link
A lattice model of secure information flow. D. Denning, CACM, May 1976. link
Chapter 2. Access Control Fundamentals. T. Jaeger, in Operating Systems Security, 2008. link
10/29/20
Mandatory Access Control
Secure Operating Systems
Review for Dennig's Information Flow paper
seL4: Formal Verification of an OS Kernel. G. Klein et al., Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 2009. link
11/03/20 Web Security Project 3: Milestone 1 due on 11/02/2020
Browser Security Handbook, Part 2 (Same origin policy, Life Outside Same-origin rules, Third-party cookie rules). link
Text: Chapter 9 link
11/05/20 Web Security
Secure Web Browsing with the OP Web Browser. C. Grier, S. Tang, S. T. King, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008. link
11/10/20 Intrusion Detection
A Sense of Self for UNIX Processes. S. Forrest, S. A. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, T. A. Longstaff, In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1996. link
The Base-Rate Fallacy and Its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection. S. Axelsson, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security. November, 1999. link
Text: Section 6.4 link
11/12/20 Security Analysis Techniques
KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs. link
A Few Billion Lines of Code Later Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World. link
CUTE: A Concolic Unit Testing Engine for C. link
ATFuzzer: Dynamic Analysis Framework of AT Interface for Android Smartphones. link
11/17/20 Cellular Network Security
Defeating IMSI Catchers. link
LTEInspector: A Systematic Approach for Adversarial Testing of 4G LTE. link
11/19/20 Privacy
Project 3: Milestone 2 due on 11/22/2020
Proxies for Anonymous Routing. M. Reed, P. Syverson, D. Goldschlag. 12th Anual Computer Security Applications Conference, 1996. link
The Tor Project link
Text: Section 10.5 link
What Virtualization Can Do for Security. T. Garfinkel and A. Warfield. ;login 32(6) 2007. link
11/24/20Thanksgiving Break - No class
11/26/20Thanksgiving Break - No class
12/01/20 Hardware for Security (Part 1)
Design and Implementation of a TCG-based Integrity Measurement Architecture. Reiner Sailer, Xiaolan Zhang, Trent Jaeger, and Leendert van Doorn. In USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2004. link
12/03/20 Hardware for Security (Part 2)
12/08/20
Adversarial Machine Learning
Linux Security Module
Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings. Patrick McDaniel, Nicolas Papernot, and Berkay Celik. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 14(3), May/June, 2016. link
12/08/20 Cloud Computing Security Bitcoin
AmazonIA: When Elasticity Snaps Back. S. Bugiel, T. Poppelmann, S. Nurnberger, A-R. Sadeghi, and T. Schneider, 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2011. link
The Blockchain: A Gentle Four Page Introduction. Jan Hendrik Witte, ArXiv.org, Dec. 2016. link
12/15/20 Final Exam, Time: 2:30 pm - 4:50 pm
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