| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | |
| Week 1 | Mon, Aug 23 | Introduction, basic concepts | Anderson 1, Saltzer and Schroeder75 | |
| Wed, Aug 25 | Ethics and responsibility | Thompson84 | ||
| Week 2 | Mon, Aug 30 | Voting system security (lecture slides) | Kohno et al. '03, Sensus, | Voting project out |
| Wed, Sep 1 | Cryptography intro (lecture slides) | |||
| Week 3 | Mon, Sep 6 | No class (Labor Day) | ||
| Wed, Sep 8 | Cryptography intro + protocols (lecture slides) | Anderson 2, 5.7 | ||
| Week 4 | Mon, Sep 13 | Crypto protocols (lecture slides) | HAC 12, Cryptyc Project, Abadi96, Burrows89 | Sep 16: late add / free drop deadline |
| Wed, Sep 15 | Crypto primitives (lecture slides) | HAC 6-9,11 (browse) | ||
| Voting Phase 1 Due | ||||
| Week 5 | Mon, Sep 20 | Formalizing cryptography (lecture slides) |
Goldwasser & Bellare (ch. 5-6), see also Bellare '98 |
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| Wed, Sep 22 | Formalizing cryptography (II) (lecture slides) | Goldwasser & Bellare (ch. 8) | Voting Phase 2 Due | |
| Week 6 | Mon, Sep 27 | OS security basics | Lampson71, ClarkWilson87, Anderson: read 3-4, skim 7,9 | |
| Wed, Sep 29 | OS security architectures | Plan 9 KeyKOS / KeySAFE |
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| Week 7 | Mon, Oct 4 | Common OS vulnerabilities | Provos 2002 (OpenSSH) | |
| Wed, Oct 6 | Engineering stronger systems | Anderson 22, Page 1988, Boettger 2000 | Voting Phase 3 Due (Fri, Oct 8) | |
| Week 8 | Mon, Oct 11 | No class (Mid-term recess) | ||
| Wed, Oct 13 | No class (Dan out of town) | |||
| Week 9 | Mon, Oct 18 | Networking: TCP/IP, DNS | Anderson 18.1-3 | |
| Wed, Oct 20 | Viruses, spam, intrusion detection | Anderson 18.4-5, Vixie's Spam Page, CAUCE, Paul Graham's Plan for Spam | Final: Proposals due | |
| Week 10 | Mon, Oct 25 | Distributed / peer-to-peer security (Byzantine failures) | ||
| Wed, Oct 27 | Distributed / peer-to-peer security (Freeloading / incentives) | Oct 28: final drop deadline | ||
| Week 11 | Mon, Nov 1 | Modern programming language basics | Specifying and checking software workshop (many overview talks) | |
| Wed, Nov 3 | Agents & mobile code | Final: status reports due | ||
| Week 12 | Mon, Nov 8 | Smart cards & tamper resistance | Anderson 14, iButton security (read section 2), Bunnie's Xbox hacks | |
| Wed, Nov 10 | Tempest (+ Soft Tempest) | Unofficial TEMPEST Page, Anderson 15 | ||
| Week 13 | Mon, Nov 15 | Untrusted platforms | CT99, ST98, Anderson 20 | |
| Wed, Nov 17 | Wireless security | |||
| Week 14 | Mon, Nov 22 | In-class public policy discussion | Anderson 21 | |
| Wed, Nov 24 | Final project presentations, 25 minute conference format | |||
| Week 15 | Mon, Nov 29 | |||
| Wed, Dec 1 | Final: writeups due Dec 3 | |||