Course Schedule Fall 2016

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Week	Date	Lecture	Homework	Reading (optional for CMSC 23200)
Week 1	Sep. 26	The security mindset and message integrity		MD5 Considered Harmful Today. Sotirov, Stevens, Appelbaum, Lenstra, Molnar, Osvik, and Weger. CCC 2008.
	Sep. 28	Hash functions and pseudorandomness	Homework 1 out
	Sep. 30 9:30–11:30am	Java minicourse (Ry. 277)
Week 2	Oct. 3	Confidentiality	Project 1 out	Cryptanalysis of the Windows Random Number Generator. Dorrendorf, Gutterman, Pinkas. CCS 2007. [*closed access]
Week 2	Oct. 5	Block ciphers	Homework 1 due 6pm Homework 2 out Grad. paper response 1 due 6pm
Week 3	Oct. 10	Public key cryptography and digital signatures		New Directions in Cryptography. Diffie, Hellman. IEEE Trans. on Information Theory. 1976.
	Oct. 12	Key exchange and key management	Grad. paper response 2 due 6pm
	Oct. 14	Assignment due date	Homework 2 due 6pm
Week 4	Oct. 17	TLS and HTTPS	Project 1 due 6pm Project 2 out	Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery. Barth, Jackson, Mitchell. CCS 2008.
Week 4	Oct. 19	Web architecture	Grad. paper response 3 due 6pm
Week 5	Oct. 24	Web attacks and defenses		The Tangled Web of Password Reuse. Das, Bonneau, Caesar, Borisov, Wang. NDSS 2014.
Week 5	Oct. 26	Authentication and access control	Homework 3 out Grad. paper response 4 due 6pm
Week 6	Oct. 31	Networking basics	Project 2 due 6pm Project 3 out	A Look Back at "Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite". Bellovin. ACSAC 2004.
Week 6	Nov. 2	Network attacks	Grad. paper response 5 due 6pm
Week 7	Nov. 7	Network defenses	Homework 3 due 6pm	The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without Function Calls (on the x86). Shacham. CCS 2007. [*closed access]
Week 7	Nov. 9	Memory safety	Homework 4 out Project 4 out Grad. paper response 6 due 6pm
Week 8	Nov. 14	Isolation	Project 3 due 6pm	Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router. Dingledine, Mathewson, Syverson. Usenix Security 2004.
	Nov. 16	Trusted computing and side channels	Grad. paper response 7 due 6pm
	Nov. 18	Assignment due date	Homework 4 due 6pm
Week 9	Nov. 21	Anonymity and web privacy		Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion. Kanich et al. CCS 2008.
Week 9	Nov. 23	Underground economy and human factors	Homework 5 out Project 4 due 6pm Project 5 out Grad. paper response 8 due 6pm
Week 10	Nov. 28	Security ethics and crypto policy
	Nov. 30	Exam review	Grad. paper response 9 due 6pm
	Dec. 2	Assignment due date	Homework 5 due 6pm Project 5 due 6pm

Final Exam: Monday, December 5, 10:30am–12:30pm in Ry. 251

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