Schedule

Date	Lecture topic	Projects given	Projects due
1/29	Intro and motivation, background material, software engineering issues
2/5	Description of the project, J2EE architecture
2/12	J2EE deployment and security policy	Stage 1
2/19	Security-related trade-offs for distributed computing
2/26	Class design for security		Stage 1
3/4	Buffer overflows and race conditions	Stage 2
3/11	Exception handling and persistence for security
3/18	Securing communication channels
3/25	Authentication
4/1	Group presentations	Stage 3	Stage 2
4/8	No class --- spring break
4/15	J2SE security model
4/22	J2SE security model, class loading	Stage 4	Stage 3
4/29	Code obfuscation, watermarking, tamperproofing
5/13	Final reports		Stage 4