CSE 127: Computer Security

Lecture: Tue and Thu 5:00 P.M. to 6:20 P.M. in EBU3B 4140

Discussion: Wed 10:00 A.M. to 10:50 A.M. in WLH 2113

Instructor: Alex Gantman (office hours Thursdays 6:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. in EBU3B 2106)

TAs: Brian Johannesmeyer

TA office hours:

Piazza: https://piazza.com/ucsd/spring2018/cse127/home

Assignments

No.DueInfo
1Apr 09 at 10pmIntro: Assignment 1, hw1.tar.gz
2Apr 23 at 10pmControl hijacking: Assignment 2, hw2.tar.gz
3Apr 30 at 10pmSide-channels: Assignment 3, hw3.tar.gz
4May 21 at 10pmWeb security: Assignment 4, Login
5Jun 04 at 10pmNetwork security: Assignment 5, (starter files are on the VM)

Lectures and Reading Assignments

DateTopicReading Assignment
Apr 03 Introduction
Apr 05 Threat Models and Risk Assessment Ch. 1 in The Craft of System Security
Reflections on Trusting Trust” by Ken Thompson
Apr 10 Low Level Software Security I: Buffer Overflows and Stack Smashing Ch. 6 in The Craft of System Security
Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit” by Aleph One
Apr 12 Low Level Software Security II: Format Strings, Shellcode, and Stack Protection Memory Errors: The Past, the Present, and the Future” by Victor van der Veen, Nitish dutt-Sharma, Lorenzo Cavallaro, and Herbert Bos
Apr 17 Low Level Software Security III: Integers, ROP, and CFI
Apr 19 Low Level Software Security IV: Heap Corruption Understanding glibc malloc” by sploitfun
Apr 24 Crypto I: Primitives Ch. 7 in The Craft of System Security
Apr 26 Crypto II: PKI, Protocols, Side Channels
May 01 User Authentication
May 03 Midterm Exam
May 08 System Security I Ch. 3.4 in The Craft of System Security
Ch. 4 in The Craft of System Security
May 10 System Security II
May 15 Web Security I Ch. 12 in The Craft of System Security
May 17 No lecture. No office hours.
May 22 Web Security II
May 24 Cryptocurrency
May 29 Network Security I
May 31 Network Security II Ch. 5 in The Craft of System Security
Jun 05 Hardware Security (TU Graz Meltdown/Spectre deck)
Jun 07 Secure Development Lifecyle
Jun 09 Final Exam: WLH 2005, 3:00pm–5:59pm