CSE 484 / CSE M 584: Computer Security (Fall 2017)

Class Schedule

Notes:

• Dates in the future are tentative and subject to slight changes (e.g., as guest lectures are scheduled). Please check back often.
• Research reading deadlines for CSE M 584 students are not listed on this calendar. You can find them here.
• I will try to post slides before class. If I don't, or if you'd just like to look ahead, the previous quarter's slides will likely be similar.



Date	Topic and Slides	Recommended Readings	Assignments
Week 1
09/27/2017	Course overview [slides]	None
09/29/2017	Introduction to security [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 1
Week 2
10/02/2017	Guest lecture: David Aucsmith	None
10/04/2017	Software security: Buffer overflows [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 6	Sign the Ethics Form by 11:59pm!
10/06/2017	Software security: Buffer overflows continued [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 6 Recommended: Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit and Exploiting Format String Vulnerabilities and Once Upon a free()	Homework #1 due (8pm) [details]
Week 3
10/09/2017	Software security: Buffer overflow defenses [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 3
10/11/2017	Software security: Misc, Principles [slides]	None
10/13/2017	Cryptography: Intro [slides]	None	Lab #1 checkpoint due (8pm) [details]
Week 4
10/16/2017	Cryptography: Symmetric encryption [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 12
10/18/2017	Cryptography: Symmetric encryption [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 12
10/20/2017	Cryptography: Hash functions and MACs [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 15
Week 5
10/23/2017	Cryptography: Asymmetric key crypto [slides]	Daswani, Chapters 13 and 14	Lab #1 due (8pm) [details]
10/25/2017	Guest lecture: Emily McReynolds, UW Tech Policy Lab	None
10/27/2017	Guest lecture: Earlence Fernandes, UW CSE	None
Week 6
10/30/2017	Cryptography meets Web Security: Finish assymetric key crypto; Web certificates [slides]	None
11/01/2017	Web Security: SSL/TLS and browser security model [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 7
11/03/2017	Web Security: Browser security mode (finish); Web application security (XSS) [slides]	Daswani, Chapters 8 and 10	Homework #2 due (8pm) [details]
Week 7
11/06/2017	Guest lecture: Jared Moore on web application security [slides | worksheet | solutions]	Daswani, Chapters 8 and 10
11/08/2017	Web Security: Web application security [slides]	Daswani, Chapters 8 and 10 Recommended: Advanced SQL Injection, XSS Cheat Sheet
11/10/2017	No class (Veterans Day)		Final Project Deadline #1 (8pm) [details]
Week 8
11/13/2017	Web Security: Loose ends [slides]	None
11/15/2017	Web Privacy [slides]	None
11/17/2017	Guest lecture: David Molnar, Microsoft Research [slides]
Week 9
11/20/2017	Authentication [slides]	Daswani, Chapter 9
11/22/2017	No class (Thanksgiving) -- we will have an alternate video assignment as part of HW3		Lab #2 due (8pm) [details] (Updated from 11/20)
11/24/2017	No class (Thanksgiving)
Week 10
11/27/2017	Mobile Platform Security [slides]
11/29/2017	Guest lecture: Christoph Kern, Google [similar slides here and here]
12/01/2017	Mobile Platform Security [slides]		Final Project Deadline #2 (8pm) [details]
Week 11
12/04/2017	Usable Security [slides]
12/06/2017	Anonymity [slides]
12/08/2017	Loose Ends [slides]		Homework #3 due (8pm) [details]
Finals Week
12/11/2017	No class (finals week)
12/13/2017	No class (finals week)		Final Project Due (11:59pm) [details]