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	13-Jan to 17-Jan	Introduction to Security and the Course Compilation and Execution Semantics	Compiler Refresher		On Trusting Trust
Week 2	20-Jan to 24-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	27-Jan to 31-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	3-Feb to 7-Feb	Advanced Control Flow Attack Defenses		HW1 Due: 7-Feb at 5:00pm	Control Flow Integrity Principles, Implementations, and Applications
Week 5	10-Feb to 14-Feb	Exam 1 Review Exam 1 (Wed 13-Feb)
Week 6	17-Feb to 21-Feb	Intro to Cryptography Terminology			Handbook of Applied Cryptography Chapter 1 Coursera Cryptography Course with Dan Boneh
Week 7	24-Feb to 28-Feb	Symmetric Key Cryptography	Basic Network Communication and AES
Week 8	3-Mar to 7-Mar	Spring Break!
	10-Mar to 14-Mar	Public Key Cryptography	Diffie-Hellman Wisdom	HW2 Released	Overview of SSL/TLS
Week 9	17-Mar to 21-Mar	Hashing and Message Authentication Codes Authenticated Encryption	The Need for Integrity
Week 10	24-Mar to 28-Mar	Exam 2 Review Exam 2 (Wed 27-Mar)		HW2 Due: 24-Mar at 5:00pm
Week 11	31-Mar to 4-Apr	RFID Web Security		HW3 Released
Week 12	7-Apr to 11-Apr	Web Security (Continued)	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	14-Apr to 18-Apr	Wireless Security Operating System Security		HW3 Due: 18-Apr at 5:00pm
Week 14	21-Apr to 25-Apr	Exam 3 Review Exam 3 (Wed 24-Apr)