Fall 2007 - CS513 System Security

CS513: System Security

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.

Recent Announcements

TA office hours begin on Monday Sept 3. See office hours.

Please attend the first lecture (Monday, Aug 27; Hollister 110) if you have questions about the conduct or content of CS513 this semester.

Office hours for the week of October 15 (i.e., Oct. 15 -- Oct 19) will be reduced slightly. Here is the the revised schedule for that week:

Mon. 2:00 - 4:00 (Clarkson)

Tues. 1:00 - 3:00 (Vishnumurthy)

Wed. 12:00 - 2:00 (Vishnumurthy)

Thurs. 1:00 - 4:00 (Vishnumurthy)

Fri. 1:00 - 4:00 (Roeder)

Office hours will be held in 328 Upson, Bay B, as usual.

Slides for Clarkson's lecture on e-voting (Civitas) are available here. Students interested in additional information should browse the Civitas project web site.

There are two interesting lectures outside of class for the week of Nov 12. All CS513 students are welcome to attend.

Tuesday Nov 13, 8pm in Robert Purcell Auditorium: Prof. Schneider will speak on What Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings at Cornell's University Computer Policy and Law Program.

Wednesday Nov 14, 5pm in Olin Hall room 255: Dr. Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital Inc will speak on Exploiting Online Games at the ACSU Meeting.

Homework Homework 1 [Assigned Aug 27; Due Sept 10, 10am] Homework 2 [Assigned Sept 12; Due Sept 26, 10am] Homework 3 [Assigned Oct 10; Due Oct 24, 10am] Homework 4 [Assigned Oct 25; Due Nov 14, 10am]

Programming Project

Schedule:

Phase I: Form groups and pick a problem. [Due 9/12 (10:10am)]

Phase II Design document describing a solution. [Due 10/3 (10:10am)]

Phase III Implement, test, and document your solution. [Due 11/19 (10:10am)]

Demo and present system to course staff. [Week of 11/26]

Click here for details about deliverables for each phase.