Fall 2005 schedule: Tues., 7:10 - 9:40 pm, Gelman 607
Text: Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop. Please check errata for your printing on the website.
Instructor: Poorvi Vora Office: 706 Philips. Office Hours: 2-5 pm, Tues.
Grader: Yu-An (Meredith) Sun, email ysun Office: 720 G Office Hours: 12:30-2, and 5-6:30, Tues. and 4-7 Thurs.
Homeworks are due by 6 pm on the day they are due which is now the day after class . Submit them in Blackboard. No other methods of submission will be accepted.
In-semester test brought forward by two weeks. The test will be on 18 October and not on 1 November as mentioned in first handout. See new handout.
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Week I, 6 Sept. 2005
Chapters 1 and 2 from text. |
Week II, 13 Sept. 2005
Access Control: Locks-Keys and Rings
Basic Results: HRU, Take-Grant Models
Chapter 15 from text. Do not do Chapter 3 from text, use only slides for Basic Results.
Reading:
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Week III, 20 Sept. 2005
Security Policy Addendum. These are extra slides that contain some diagrams that students found useful when I presented them in class.
HW 1 Due 27 September 2005 by midnight, as a special case. HWs are usually due by 6 pm
Chapter 4 (except 4.5 and 4.6) from text
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Week IV, 27 Sept. 2005
Part 1: We completed the Security Policy material from Week III.
Chapters 5.1, 5.2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2 from text
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Week V, 4 October 2005
Classical Ciphers Some slides removed from original set
HW 2 Problems 1, 2 and 4 due 12 October 2005 by 6 pm; Problems 3 and 5 due 26 October 2005 by 6 pm.
HW 3 Due 28 October 2005 by 6 pm. Ciphertext, HW 3
HW 4 Due 2 November 2005 by 6 pm.
Chapters 9.1, 9.2.1, 9.2.2 from text
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Week VI, 11 October 2005
Part 1: Complete Classical Ciphers from Week V.
Security properties of BLP corrected in slides, see Confidentiality
Chapter 9.2.3.
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Week VII, 18 October 2005 Test. Material covered by end of class, 4 October 2005. |
Week VIII, 25 October 2005
Part 1: Midterm Results and Solutions.
Part 2: Complete Block Ciphers from Week VI. Chapter 9.3.1
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Week IX, 1 November 2005
Part 1: Complete Public Key Cryptography HW 5 assigned. Due 16 November 6 pm Chapters 9.3, 9.4, Digital signatures only from slides, not from text, 10.1, 10.2.3 |
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Week X, 8 November 2005
Complete Public Key Infrastructure
Time Permitting: Identity.
Chapters 10.4, 11.2, 14 (upto 14.5, time permitting) |
Week XI, 15 November 2005
Complete Identity.
Chapters 14 (upto 14.5 only), 12. HW 6 assigned. Due 2 December. |
Week XII, 22 November 2005
Risk Analysis and Ethical Issues
Chapters: 22 - upto and including 22.5.
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Week XIII, 29 November 2005
Information Flow and Covert Channels
Steganography. References L. Sweeney. ``k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy''. International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, 10 (5), 2002; 557-570. PDF L. Sweeney. ``Achieving k-anonymity privacy protection using generalization and suppression''. International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, 10 (5), 2002; 571-588. PDF ``Statistical Policy Working Paper 22 - Report on Statistical Disclosure Limitation Methodology'', Chapter 2, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, May 1994.
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Week XIV, 6 December 2005 Final: Lectures 6, 8-13. |