CS 342 "Computer Security", Fall 2006

Wellesley College

Prof. Daniel Bilar, Prof. Franklyn Turbak

Tuesday, Friday at 1:30pm-2:40pm in room E111 (Science Center)

Tentative Calendar (last updated Oct. 18, 2006)

September 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

1

2

3

4

5


Introduction, Course Goals

LYN, DANIEL

6

7

8


Symmetric Key Cryptography

LYN

9

10

11

12
Message Authentication Codes
PS1 out (due 9/22)

LYN

13

14

15

Simple Protocols

LYN

16

17

18

19


Authentication

LYN

20

21

22

 

Access Control; Permissions
PS1 due
PS2 out (due 10/03)


LYN

23

24

25

26


Introduction To Networks

DANIEL

27

28

29

 

Anatomy of an Attack

 HW 3

DANIEL

30

October 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

2

3

More Network Attacks
PS2 due
PS3 out (due 10/16)

DANIEL

4

5

6


Malware/Viruses I

DANIEL

7

8

9

10

 

 


No class

11

12

13

Malware/Viruses II

DANIEL

14

15

16

PS3 due

17


Virus Wrapup; Worms

PS4 out (due 10/27)
DANIEL

18

19

20
Crash Course in C, x86 Assembly, and Compilation, Part 1

LYN

21

22

23

24

 

 


No class

25

26

27
Crash Course in C, x86 Assembly, and Compilation, Part 2
PS4 due

LYN

28

29

30

31
Code Exploits,
Part 2

LYN

 

November 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

1
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Project proposal due ***

2

Ben Adida Talk (4:30 in SCI 278): "Transparent Secret Ballot Elections"

3


Public Key Infrastructure

Guest Lecturer (Wellesley Alumna: Sarah “Scout” Sinclair)

4

5

6

7
Code Exploits,
Part 1

PS5 out
(due 11/15 12/21)
LYN


DANIEL

8

9

10

 

Intrusion Detection Systems, Part 1


DANIEL

11

12

13

14
Intrusion Detection Systems, Part 2

DANIEL

15

16

17

E-Voting Presentations

18

19

20

21
Firewalls

Guest lecturer: Don Nightingale


Project Progress Reports due

22

23

24

 


no class

25

26

27

28
Privacy Discussion

Guest Discussant: Maud Chaplin

29

30

 

December 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

1
Cyberforensics

Guest lecturer:
A Special Agent from Boston's FBI CyberSquad

2

3

4

5

Student Project Presentations

6

7

8

Student Project Presentations

9

10

11

12

Student Project Presentations (starts at 12:30; includes lunch)

13

14

15
***

1st Draft returned

***

16

***

1st Draft in

 ***

17

18

19

20

21
***

Final paper due;

***

PS5 due

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31