15-487 Schedule

Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule. It will likely change and be updated throughout the semester.

Week	Dates	Lecture Topics	Lab Topic	Assignments	Readings
Week 1	7-Jan to 11-Jan	Introduction to Security and the Course Compilation and Execution Semantics	Compiler Refresher		On Trusting Trust
Week 2	14-Jan to 18-Jan	Control Flow Attacks	Thinking Up Exploits	HW1 Released	Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit Exploiting Format String Vulnerabilities Smashing the Stack in 2011
Week 3	21-Jan to 25-Jan	Basic Control Flow Attack Defenses Return Oriented Programming	ROP Gadgets		ASLR Smack and Laugh Reference Design of ASLR in PAX The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone Return-into-libc without Calls (on the x86)
Week 4	28-Jan to 1-Feb	Advanced Control Flow Attack Defenses		HW1 Due: 1-Feb at 5:00pm	Control Flow Integrity Principles, Implementations, and Applications
Week 5	4-Feb to 8-Feb	Exam 1 Review Exam 1
Week 6	11-Feb to 15-Feb	Intro to Cryptography Terminology			Handbook of Applied Cryptography Chapter 1 Coursera Cryptography Course with Dan Boneh
Week 7	18-Feb to 22-Feb	Symmetric Key Cryptography	Basic Network Communication and AES
Week 8	25-Feb to 1-Mar	Public Key Cryptography	The Need for Integrity	HW2 Released	Overview of SSL/TLS
	4-Mar to 8-Mar	Spring Break!
Week 9	11-Mar to 15-Mar	Hashing and Message Authentication Codes Authenticated Encryption
Week 10	18-Mar to 22-Mar	Exam 2 Review Exam 2		HW2 Due: 18-Mar at 5:00pm
Week 11	25-Mar to 29-Mar	Web Security		HW3 Released
Week 12	1-Apr to 5-Apr	Web Security (Continued) Wireless Security	Investigating Single-Sign On with Tamper Chrome		Kali Linux (Penetration Testing Linux Distro) Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup: When poor design meets poor implementation
Week 13	8-Apr to 12-Apr	Operating System Security Mobile Security		HW3 Due: 12-Apr at 5:00pm
Week 14	15-Apr to 19-Apr	Exam 3 Review Exam 3