CS 161: Computer Security

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Final grades are posted. Thanks for a great semester!

Instructors: Nicholas Ngai and Peyrin Kao

Lecture: Monday–Thursday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM PT

Date	Readings	Lecture	Discussion	HW	Project
Mon 06/21	1. Principles for Building Secure Systems	Slides Recording Videos	No discussion	HW1
Tue 06/22	2. x86 Assembly and Call Stack	Slides Recording Videos	No discussion		Project 1
Wed 06/23	3. Memory Safety Vulnerabilities	Slides Recording Videos	61C Review, Security Principles (solutions) (recording)
Thu 06/24	4. Mitigating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities	Slides Recording Videos	61C Review, Security Principles (solutions) (recording)
Mon 06/28	Holiday	No lecture	Memory Safety (solutions) (recording)	HW2
Tue 06/29	5. Introduction to Cryptography 6. Symmetric-Key Cryptography	Slides Recording Videos	Memory Safety (solutions) (recording)
Wed 06/30	6. Symmetric-Key Cryptography	Slides Recording Videos	Symmetric-Key Cryptography (solutions) (recording)
Thu 07/01	7. Cryptographic Hashes 8. Message Authentication Codes (MACs)	Slides Recording Videos	Symmetric-Key Cryptography (solutions) (recording)
Mon 07/05	Holiday	No lecture	Asymmetric Cryptography (solutions) (recording)	HW3
Tue 07/06	9. Pseudorandom Number Generators (PRNGs) 10. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange	Slides Recording Videos	Asymmetric Cryptography (solutions) (recording)
Wed 07/07	11. Public-Key Encryption 12. Digital Signatures	Slides Recording Videos	Public Key Cryptography (solutions) (recording)		Project 2 Design
Thu 07/08	13. Certificates 14. Passwords 15. Case Studies	Slides Recording Videos	Public Key Cryptography (solutions) (recording)
Mon 07/12	16. Bitcoin	Slides Recording Videos	Midterm Review	HW4
Tue 07/13	Midterm (5:00–7:00 PM PT)	No lecture	Midterm Review
Wed 07/14	18. Introduction to Web 19. Same-Origin Policy	Slides Recording Videos	No discussion
Thu 07/15	20. Cookies and Session Management 21. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)	Slides Recording Videos	No discussion
Mon 07/19	22. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) 23. UI Attacks	Slides Recording Videos	Cookies and CSRF (solutions) (recording)	HW5
Tue 07/20	24. SQL Injection 25. CAPTCHAs	Slides Recording Videos	Cookies and CSRF (solutions) (recording)
Wed 07/21	26. Introduction to Networking	Slides Recording Videos	SQL Injection and XSS (solutions) (recording)
Thu 07/22	27. ARP 28. WPA 29. DHCP	Slides Recording Videos	SQL Injection and XSS (solutions) (recording)		Project 2
Mon 07/26	30. BGP 31. TCP and UDP	Slides Recording Videos	UI Based Attacks and Privacy (solutions) (recording)	HW6
Tue 07/27	32. TLS	Slides Recording Videos	UI Based Attacks and Privacy (solutions) (recording)
Wed 07/28	33. DNS	Slides Recording Videos	TLS and TCP (solutions) (recording)
Thu 07/29	34. DNSSEC	Slides Recording Videos	TLS and TCP (solutions) (recording)
Mon 08/02	35. Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks 36. Firewalls	Slides Recording Videos	DNS (solutions) (recording)	HW7
Tue 08/03	37. Intrusion Detection	Slides Recording Videos	DNS (solutions) (recording)
Wed 08/04	39. Malware	Slides Recording Videos	Intrusion Detection (solutions) (recording)		Project 3
Thu 08/05	40. Anonymity and Tor	Slides Recording Videos	Intrusion Detection (solutions) (recording)
Mon 08/09	(Optional) 17. Signal	Recording	Final Review
Tue 08/10	(Optional) Open Review Session		Final Review
Wed 08/11	(Optional) Buffer Overflows in Super Mario Bros. 3	Videos
Thu 08/12	Final Exam (5:00–8:00 PM PT)	No lecture