CS5430: System Security (Spring 2025)

Course Overview and Organization.

Lecture times, teaching staff, office hours, prerequisites, assignments and grading policy.

Topic Outline.

High-level listing of topics to be covered along with recommended readings.

Announcements

• [1/21] The midterm examination is the evening of March 18 (Tues). Here is an an old exam and the solutions. This semester's class will cover a slightly different list of topics, so some of the questions asked on that old exam concern material that the Fall 2023 midterm exam will not cover.
• [1/21] TA office hours. TA office hours begin the week of January 27. Times and places will be listed in Course Overview and Organization.
• [1/25] MEng Project Option. Information about using the course project as the basis for an MEng project are discussed in MEng Project Option.
• [2/3] New classroom on MW. Starting today, class meets in Baker 335 on Mon and Wed. We continue to meet in Gates G01 on Fri.

Homework

• Project Phase 0 (extending a key-value store). due 2/7 at 11:59pm.
• Project Phase 1 (secure channels). Part 1 due 2/21 at 11:59pm. Part 2 due 3/5 at 11:59
• Homework 1 (on introductory concepts and shared-key protocols). due 2/16 at 11:59pm.
• Project Phase 2 (user authentication). Part 1 due 3/12 at 11:59pm. Part 2 due 3/26 at 11:59