CS456/556 Schedule
Calendar feed: https://www.flyn.org/courses/cs456-2022-spring/schedule.ics
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Date
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Subject
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Due
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Read before class
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Assigned
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| Tuesday, Jan 25 | 1. Introduction; intro | Aquinas computer, unix, git, and cli in C | ||
| Thursday, Jan 27 | 2. The C Programming Language; net-client.c net-server.c sprintf-size.c fmt.c dyn.c owner.c errors.c style.c open.c fopen.c | Security Engineering Ch. 1 | Aquinas make and unix2 | |
| Tuesday, Feb 1 | 3. Definitions and the vulnerability cycle; definitions CVE CVSS CWE CPE NVD gravvuln | Aquinas git, cli in C, and make | Security Engineering § 27.5.7, How to Read a Paper, and Seven Pernicious Kingdoms | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 1 (checks 1–3) |
| Thursday, Feb 3 | 4. Taxonomy of vulnerabilities; vulnerabilities | |||
| Tuesday, Feb 8 | 5. Security principles; principles Security Measures in OpenSSH | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 1 (checks 1–3) | § 1.A of The Protection of Information in Computer Systens | Aquinas secprin |
| Thursday, Feb 10 | 6. Security principles applied; principles-applied TLS check | |||
| Tuesday, Feb 15 | 7. Secure systems development; secure-development | Aquinas secprin | Security Engineering Ch. 27 | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 2 (checks 1–23) |
| Thursday, Feb 17 | 8. Project Design; project-design shadow.c | |||
| Tuesday, Feb 22 | 9. System calls and kernel mediation; syscall fork-exec.c pipe.c | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 2 (checks 1–23) | Security Engineering Ch. 6 | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 3 (checks 1–n) |
| Thursday, Feb 24 | 10. Process management; process-management | |||
| Tuesday, Mar 1 | 11. Gaining and losing privilege; setuid | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 3 (checks 1–n) | Setuid Demystified and Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 4 (checks 1–n) |
| Thursday, Mar 3 | ||||
| Tuesday, Mar 8 | 13. Review | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 4 (checks 1–n) | ||
| Thursday, Mar 10 | 14. Exam 1 | |||
| Tuesday, Mar 22 | 15. Cryptographic primitives; crypto | Security Engineering Ch. 5 | Aquinas tweetnacl in C | |
| Thursday, Mar 24 | 16. Cryptographic systems; crypto2 | |||
| Tuesday, Mar 29 | 17. Concurrency; concurrency poller.c | Aquinas tweetnacl in C | Security Engineering Ch. 7 | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 5 (checks 1–n) |
| Thursday, Mar 31 | 18. Concurrency 2; concurrency2 | |||
| Tuesday, Apr 5 | 19. LangSec and parsers parsing | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 5 (checks 1–n) | Exploit Programming | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 6 (checks 1–n) |
| Thursday, Apr 7 | 20. Introduction to parser generators; parser-generator Makefile lexer.l parser.y | |||
| Tuesday, Apr 12 | 21. Review | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 6 (checks 1–n) | ||
| Thursday, Apr 14 | 22. Exam 2 | |||
| Tuesday, Apr 19 | 23. Building, harnessing, and fuzzing; fuzzing | The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 7 (checks 1–n) | |
| Thursday, Apr 21 | 24. Program analysis | |||
| Tuesday, Apr 26 | 25. Chat commands; grouped.c | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 7 (checks 1–n) | Aquinas chat in C: Phase 8 (checks 1–n) | |
| Thursday, Apr 28 | ||||
| Tuesday, May 3 | ||||
| Thursday, May 5 | Graduate assignment (see syllabus) and Aquinas chat in C: Phase 8 (checks 1–n) |