COM S 513: System Security

Cross-Listing: Not cross-listed.

This course discusses security and survivability for computers and communications networks. The course will include discussions of policy issues (e.g. the national debates on cryptography policy) as well as the discussions of the technical alternatives for implementing the properties that comprise "trustworthiness" in a computing system. Mechanisms for authorization and authentication as well as cryptographic protocols will be covered.

Offered: Fall only

Prerequisites: COM S 414 or 419 and familiarity with JAVA or C # programming languages.

Grade options: Letter or S/U

Credit hours: 4

Recent offerings:

• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2007fa
  • Fred Schneider
• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2006fa
  • Andrew Myers
• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2005fa
  • Fred Schneider