SecurePlayer Contest Up!

Hey all, as mentioned in the handout, we've got a friendly contest going on with SecurePlayer. Be the first on the block to send us your exploit with [exploit] in the Subject line and be known for all eternity! The current standings are here, with dummy names and values until you budding hackers send in your own.

Good luck!

Hash Lectures

Hey everyone, sorry for not having this on the web sooner: lecture slides for Cryptographic Hash Functions. Hash trees and chains are mentioned in here.

-TAs

Welcome to CS166

Welcome to CS166: Introduction to Computer Systems Security, Sem II, 2008-2009. We will holding class Monday and Wednesdays 2:00pm - 3:20pm in CIT 368, including the first day of classes. Roberto Tamassia will be teaching the course.

Outline

This course teaches principles of computer security from an applied viewpoint and provides hands-on experience on security threats and countermeasures. Topics include code execution vulnerabilities (buffer overflow, sandboxing, mobile code), malware (trojans, viruses, and worms), access control (users, roles, policies), cryptosystems (hashing, signatures, certificates), network security (firewalls, TLS, intrusion detection, VPN), and human and social engineering, digital rights management). Prerequisites: CS 16 or CS 18.