| DATE |
SUBJECT |
Comments |
| 12/22/11 |
Week #16 |
Go to Student Database on the left.
You can pick up your midterm 3 and quiz 5 along with the Project 3 report
from my office 329 Davis Hall. Uncollected student work will be
retained for 6 months and will be discarded afterward.
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| 12/05/11 |
Week #15 |
This is the final week. We will have midterm 3 on Wednesday. The material
for midterm 3 includes digital certificates from Ch. 14 and the topics
covered after this. There will be a quiz on Friday as well.
Monday, we will cover Intrusion Detection. Any
leftover material will be covered in Friday's class.
Quiz 5 is optional. At the end, one quiz will be dropped.
Note that there is no final exam for this course.
I have moved to the new CSE building (Davis Hall). So, this week's
office hours will be held in my new office 329 Davis Hall.
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| 11/28/11 |
Week #14 |
We will continue with OS Security today. More material will be posted later
in the week.
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| 11/21/11 |
Week #13 |
This is a short week due to Thanksgiving break. We will start OS Security
on Monday. I will post the material over the weekend.
Quiz 4 solution has been posted.
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| 11/14/11 |
Week #12 |
We shall start IP Security this week. Project 3 is on Email Forensics.
It has been assigned. The submission date is December 9th,
but start working on it soon. It involves some coding and hence may
take some significant amount of time.
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| 10/31/11 |
Week #10 |
This week we will complete Kerberos and do a short review for midterm to be given on November 7th.
I have posted the class schedule for next week as well. The material will be
uploaded later.
Project 2 demo will start on Tuesday and will go until Thursday. The demo
slots have been notified in the class on Monday. The demos will be held in
the CSE grad lab (2nd floor Bell Hall). Be there at least 5 minutes
before your slot.
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| 10/24/11 |
Week #9 |
We shall start security applications this week. The
class material for the next three lectures has been posted.
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| 10/17/11 |
Week #8 |
This week, we will start key management and key distribution.
The material has been posted. You can also expect a quiz in the near
future.
Keep checking the newsgroup sunyab.cse.565 for any updates related to
projects and homeworks.
Solution to Midterm 1 has been posted. Go to the pollux server to see the solution keys.
Project 1 will be returned. It is graded out of 50 points.
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| 10/10/11 |
Week #7 |
This week, we first finish D-H Key Exchange vulnerability and then move on to
Digital Signatures. The class material has been posted.
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| 09/26/11 |
Midterm Week |
First midterm is on October 7th in the class. Key reading and insight into
midterm will be discussed in Wednesday's class. There will be a quiz
on Monday. The quizzes and homeworks should be studied as
preparation for the midterm.
We shall return to D-H Key Exchange the week after the midterm. On Monday,
after the quiz, we shall study Hashing.
Also, note that Project 1 and HW 2 are due this week. Solution key
for Homework 2 will be distributed on Wednesday after collecting your work.
A softcopy of the solution has been made availble on pollux server also.
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| 09/26/11 |
Week #5 |
Your first midterm is on October 7th. It is being set for 45 minutes. The
topics to be included are Conventional crypto systems (substitution,
transposition, DES, AES) and number theory. PKI is not included
for the first midterm. More details will be discussed in the October 5th
class.
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| 09/19/11 |
Week #4 |
For projects in this course, you must work in groups of three
and there are no exceptions. Reports submitted by groups of two or individuals
will not be graded. If you are unable to form groups of three, simply talk
to each other and reorganize all groups of two's by merge and divide. You can
also communicate with others using the newsgroup: sunyab.cse.565.
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| 09/12/11 |
Week #3 |
Project 1 has been posted. Projects should be done in groups of three.
Talk to each other and form your groups. Read the project guidelines carefully
and answer to the point. No coding necessary and the deliverable for this
project is a report as explained in the project guidelines.
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| 09/05/11 |
Week #2 |
Both Homework 1 and Project 1 will be posted. TA office hours for this week
are canceled. Send direct email to the TA (rmehresh@buffalo.edu) should you
need to schedule an appointment for later this week.
Homeworks must be done individually and projects should be done in
groups of three. Talk to each other and form your groups.
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| 08/29/11 |
Lecture#1 |
This is an introductory class. We will go through the course contents
and basic motivational issues. Check Lectures to
see the slides. There are no office hours this week.
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