CS5430: System Security
- Course
Overview and Organization.
- Lecture times, teaching staff, office hours, prerequisites, assignments
and grading policy.
- Topic
Outline.
- Week by week listing of lecture videos and readings that students
are expected to have covered.
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Zoom for Tues/Thurs discussions (10:20 - 11:10).
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Canvas web site for this course. Lecture video and discussion recordings are available here.
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Announcements
- [12/17] Project 2 is graded.
Grades will be released shortly on CMS.
- Each group project received a letter grade, which is translated to a posted numeric score
as follows: A --> 40; A- --> 37; B+ --> 33; etc.
In addition, Professor Schneider's detailed comments on your submission are available on CMS in
a marked-up copy of your group's project report.
- A separate CMS assignment "Extra credit: Project 2" records a "1" for each
individual in a group that demonstrated a viable solution.
- [12/08] Course Evaluations.
Please complete Cornell's course evaluation by midnight Dec 16.
You should have received an email link to the appropriate page.
Instructors do receive a list of who has completed one of these course evaluations,
and it is an element of the "Class Participation" part of your final grade in
CS5430.
- [11/29] Homework 5 is graded.
Grades will be released shortly.
Correct solutions can be found here.
Regrade requests should be conveyed by email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu
prior to 9:00am on Wed Dec 2;
include your graded homework assignment as an attachment.
Your email should explain why your solution is the same as the posted solution set.
No "fishing" requests, please.
Note, a regrade request could cause your grade to be lowered, since
(i) we will regrade all parts of the homework, and
(ii) we will penalize regrade requests that show ignorance
of the solutions or the
original paper.
- [11/21] Project 2 is posted.
- [11/11] Project 1 test cases.
A zip file containing the test cases that we used for grading project 1 can be found
here.
Details are given in the README file in that directory.
- [11/10] Homework 4 and Project 1 are graded.
Grades will be released shortly.
Correct solutions as well as common mistakes will be discussed
Thursday, Nov 12 in class.
Wait until afer that class discussion to submit a regrade request.
Regrade requests should be conveyed by email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu
prior to 9:00am on Monday Nov 16;
include your graded homework assignment as an attachment.
Your email should explain the reason for the request,
given the solutions discussed in class.
No "fishing" requests, please.
Note, a regrade request could cause your grade to be lowered, since
(i) we will regrade all parts of the homework, and
(ii) we will penalize regrade requests that show ignorance
of the solutions and/or common mistakes that were discussed in class.
- [11/09] Homework 5 is posted.
- [10/26] Homework 4 is posted.
- [10/14] Homework 3 is graded.
Grades will be released shortly.
Correct solutions as well as common mistakes will be discussed
Thursday, Oct 15 in class.
Wait until afer that Oct 15 class discussion to submit a regrade request.
Regrade requests should be conveyed by email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu
prior to 9:00am on Monday Oct 19;
include your graded homework assignment as an attachment.
Your email should explain the reason for the request,
given the solutions discussed in class.
No "fishing" requests, please.
Note, a regrade request could cause your grade to be lowered, since
(i) we will regrade all parts of the homework, and
(ii) we will penalize regrade requests that show ignorance
of the solutions and/or common mistakes that were discussed in class.
- [10/08] Project 1 is posted.
- [10/06] Homework 2 is graded.
Grades will be released shortly.
Each assignment receives two separate grades in CMSX.
- HW02 gives the grade for your solutions to the required problems.
- EC2 gives the grade for your extra credit solution (if submitted).
Correct solutions as well as common mistakes will be discussed
Thursday, Oct 8 in class.
Wait until afer that Oct 8 class discussion to submit a regrade request.
Regrade requests should be conveyed by email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu
prior to 9:00am on Monday Oct 12;
include your graded homework assignment as an attachment.
Your email should explain the reason for the request,
given the solutions discussed in class.
No "fishing" requests, please.
Note, a regrade request could cause your grade to be lowered, since
(i) we will regrade all parts of the homework, and
(ii) we will penalize regrade requests that show ignorance
of the solutions and/or common mistakes discussed in class.
- [9/22] To followup on today's discussion:
Federated
Identity management systems: A privacy-based characterization.
IEEE Security & Privacy 11, 5 (September/October 2013), pages 36--48.
- [9/22] Homework 3 is posted.
- [9/21] Homework 1 is graded.
Grades will be released shortly.
Correct solutions as well as common mistakes will be discussed Tuesday Sept 22 in class.
Wait until afer that Sept 22 class discussion to submit a regrade request.
Send email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu
prior 9:00am on Friday Sept 25;
include your entire graded homework assignment as an attachment.
Your email should explain the reason for the request,
given the solutions discussed in class.
No "fishing" requests, please.
Note, a regrade request could cause your grade to be lowered, since
(i) we will regrade all parts of the homework, and
(ii) we will penalize regrade requests that show ignorance
of the solutions and/or common mistakes discussed in class.
- [9/15] Homework 2 is posted.
- [9/15] To followup on today's discussion:
Implementing
insider defenses.To appear, Communications of the ACM.
- [9/8] Notes for today's discussion:
Articulating security goals.
- [9/8] Homework 1 is posted.
- [9/2] Students should find themselves listed in CMS
within 24 hours of having been added by to the class roster by
the University Registrar.
If you do not find yourself listed in CMS and you believe you are registered
in CS5430 then send email to
cs5430-staff@cornell.edu.
You will not be able to submit assignments for this class
unless you are listed in CMS.
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Homework