CSE 659 (Section 2) Seminar on Computer Security, Fall 97

Professor Tzi-cker Chiueh


Description

This is a one-credit seminar course on computer security. This semester, we will study current work in the area of Web security. Students who decide to take this course must be committed to do a high-quality presentation of his or her assignment. In particular, a handout of at least one page must be prepared beforehand to be distributed in the meeting. As usual, auditors are NOT welcome. We meet from 5:15 to 6:15 PM in the conference room every Thursday. The first class is 9/4/97 (Thursday).

The Schedule

 
9/4 Introduction and Organization
9/11 Cryptographic File Systems (Prashant)  
9/18 Security considerations of Java design (Pedro)
9/25 Princeton's work on Java security (Tulika)
10/8 Malicious Java applets vs. Virus (Srinidhi) 
10/15 TCP/IP Security I (Kartik) 
10/22 TCP/IP Security II (Anindya)
10/29 Intrusion Detection (Ballman)
11/6 Cheswick's firewall papers (cbaoqiu)
11/13 Fast packet filtering (lanhuang) 
11/20 X windows through firewall (srinidhi)
12/4 Satan and ISS (ballman)
12/11 Denial of service (ckyang)