Announcements

2005-12-21:

• Final grades
  • Hi, Your final grades are posted on my.poly. Also an email was sent to all through my.poly explaning cut-off points and final grade computation. Please check and turn in all requests for correction by 3 pm tomorrow.

2005-12-13:

• Finals questions
  • Ignore statements about number of questions in study guide. Hints in the number and ytoes of questions were sent to you by email. 11 questions. 1 for each module. Check your email for hints on some of the questions. -nasir

2005-12-12:

• Module 10 - Evaluating Systems was uploaded into Lecture section
• Module 11 - Information Flow and Covert Channels was uploaded into Lecture section
• Module 8 - Assurance was uploaded into Lecture section
• Buffer Overflow - lecture 1 was uploaded into Lecture section
• Buffer Overflow was uploaded into Lecture section
• Buffer Overflow contd was uploaded into Lecture section Final Exam
• Final exam is on Dec 15th. Same time and room as regular class.
• Final Study Guide - Old Book was uploaded into exam section
• Final Study Guide - New Book was uploaded into exam section

2005-12-09:

• Change to buffer overflow homework
  • Section 3.1.1, 10.2 in Hw8 has changed. Due date extended to Dec 18th.

2005-12-07:

• About HW Grades
  • For the homework grades, the lowest grade that you get will be dropped and only the eight other grades will be considered.
• Buffer Overflow was uploaded into Homework section

2005-11-23:

• Hardening a LINUX box - HW7 was uploaded into Homework section HW7
• If you need a linux m/c for HW7 send a request to vikram. vikram@isis.poly.edu and you will get one early next week.

2005-11-11:

• Reviewed Design Document was uploaded into Homework section

2005-11-10:

• Module 7 - Security Policies was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-11-01:

• Mid-term Study Guide for the new book was uploaded into exam section

2005-10-28:

• Module 6 - Threat Modeling was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-10-27:

• Foundations of Attack Trees paper
  • For the Foundations of Attack Trees paper (http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad05/attacktrees.pdf ) suggested in the Attack Trees section of HW 5, read the Abstract, Introduction, the theory about Section 3 i.e. Transformations and the Conclusion. Those of you who have taken an algorithms class will appreciate how all properties of Trees apply to Attack Trees. You don’t have to get into the Lemma’s or the Theorems or any of the Math.

2005-10-26:

• Module 5 - Design Principles was uploaded into Lecture section Requirements Tracability Matrix
• The Requirements Tracability Matrix maps a Requirement to a module handling the Requirement. The purpose of having this is to ensure that all requirements are addressed in some module and no requirements are missed out.
• Mid-term study Guide was uploaded into exam section

2005-10-20:

• Design Document and Threat Analysis was uploaded into Homework section
• Template for Design Document was uploaded into Homework section

2005-10-18:

• FEAU Reference Monitor
  • You have to design and IMPLEMENT a mechanism that integrates FEAU and the reference monitor for section 2.3 of HW4.
• Module 4 - Access Control was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-10-12:

• HW 3 extended
  • HW3 submission is extended to Friday the 14th instead of Thursday the 13th.

2005-10-11:

• FEAU Reference monitor was uploaded into Homework section e-mail address
• Please put your e-mail address as a comment or somewhere when you submit homework, so that we can contact you if needed.

2005-10-05:

• Module 3 - Key Exchange, Identity and Authentication was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-10-03:

• FEAU Part 3 (User authentication & Signing,Verifying) was uploaded into Homework section

2005-09-24:

• FEAU Part 2 HW submission extended
  • FEAU Part 2 HW submission extended to 30 September.

2005-09-21:

• FEAU Part 2 (RSA) was uploaded into Homework section

2005-09-20:

• TA Office hour announced
  • The office hour for Anagha has been posted on the grading page.

2005-09-19:

• Module 2 - Public Key Crypto, Digital Signatures and Hash Functions was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-09-16:

• TA for course
  • Please direct all questions about homework to the TA - Anagha Mudigonda (anaghs@gmail.com or anaghamudigonda@yahoo.com).

2005-09-15:

• FEAU Part 1 (AES) was uploaded into Homework section
• Module 1 - Symmetric Cryptography was uploaded into Lecture section

2005-09-04:

• Introduction was uploaded into Lecture section
• homework 0 - Introduction to C and UNIX was uploaded into Homework section