Announcements

Date: Monday, Dec 10, 2003

I realized that I had missed out on topics on Lecture 12 slides when discussing score distribution for various topics. That was unintentional. But considering that it might have affected your preparation, the exam will be designed to test you on Risk Management and on one of the three topics:

Watermarking
Computer Forensics or
Legal/Ethical issues

That is, you will have to prepare for Risk Management and one of the other three topics for the exam.

Date: Monday, Dec 8, 2003

Material that we covered in class, which were not from the required text -book mainly came from recommended book Security in Computing, 2nd Edition, Charles P. Pfleeger, Prentice Hall

Date: Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003

The firewall lab exercise has been put up (Homework 6). Note that proposal are due soon too.

Date: Monday, Nov 07, 2003

Here is a Proposal Sample. Essentially, you will have to provide some background information, motivation behind your project and a project plan or tasks.

Date: Monday, Nov 03, 2003

This week, we will be doing a "firewall exercise" in the Tele Lab - some of you may have already done the exercise in Network Security course with Prof. Krishnamurthy. This exercise will be short - basically you will have to spend some time in the lab (between 30 min to 1 hour). I am working on the schedule for the Tele Lab and will put it up shortly.

As I would like to ensure that everyone is comfortable with the basics of Java security programming (HW5) before we move on to the next exercise, I have decided to allow you to work on them till Friday, Nov 7. I encourage you to meet me or the TA (or email either of us) if you are having problems.

There will be a quiz on Lectures 8 and 9 in this week's lecture (Nov 6).

Date: Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003 (1:40pm)

In the programming exercise, you have been asked to implement a double strenght password. Here is the diagram illustrating the double strenght password

Date: Friday, Oct 24, 2003 (4:30pm)

If you had printed out HW5 based on the earlier announcement, please disregard that and print the current HW5 file.

Date: Friday, Oct 24, 2003 (2:30pm)

Homeowk 5 has been posted. The required Java class files have been provided - follow the link.

Date: Oct 20, 2003 (3:45pm)

Important: We will be doing some programming exercises and the language we will use in most part will be Java. Except one or two students (indicated by the survey that I took in the first class) no one in the class has programmed in Java. You should start reading some Java tutorials. Here is a good one: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Date: Oct 15, 2003[2] (4:35pm)

There was some error on solution to poblem 9.8.13 (e is an odd number). The problem has been corrected in the new version.

Date: Oct 15, 2003[1]

For some reason the last few pages of HW1 Solutions come out in very light color. I have put up the Word document. Let me know if you have further problem with the solutions.
Homework 4 solution has been posted
In Homework 3 solution, x = y for problem 1(b)(iv). See the updated solutions
If you have not done so, you can pick up HW3, HW4 and quiz

Date: Oct 13, 2003

Following changes in TAs office hours will be in effect only for Tuesday, Oct 14.

                Time:    2:15-4:15 pm
                Place:   407 Geoinformatics Lab

                Reason:    The 2nd floor lounge is reserved tomorrow for a special event.

HW4 has been updated with some hints for two problems.
Solutions to all the quiz and homeworks (except HW4, which will be posted tomorrow) are available now.