CSCI 4830 -- Network Security

Announcements

• Welcome to CSCI 4830. You will find various announcements made here on the course web page. Please check back once in a while to keep up-to-date. To find out more about the course, read the info sheet.
• One student in our class sent me a link about the blaster worm and the recent arrest of a Minnesota teenager.
• Lamo was finally arrested; the dangers of hacking when over age 18. Read the story. (Thanks to Josh for the pointer.)
• The article by Aleph One that we're reviewing to learn about buffer overruns can be found in the phrack archive.
• Results of the first student survey are posted below.
• A new CA cert was issued today, 11/04. Don't use until you have verified the fingerprint handed out on 11/06.
• The project phase II document has been updated. (11/19/03)
• All certs are now available on the CSCI 4830 certs page.
• Final project due date pushed back to 12/09.

  Office Hours

  • John Black - ECOT 627 - Wednesdays 5-5:50pm; Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm (email: jrblack@cs.colorado.edu)

  Syllabus, Readings, and General Information

  • Course information sheet - You are responsible for everything on this
  • A rough/tentative schedule for the course.
  • Reading list to-date: Ch 1 (just skim 1.13), Ch 2, Ch 3 (Skim IDEA and RC4 sections), Ch 4 (Skip 4.2.3, 4.2.4), RSA Handout, 6.3, 6.6, Authenticated Encryption Article, Gibson Write-up

  Homework and Projects

  • Homework #1 - (Out: 9/09/03; Due: 9/16/03) - Solns
  • Homework #2 - (Out: 9/25/03; Due: 10/7/03) -
  • Project I (part b) - (Out: 11/18/03; Due 11/25/03)
  • Project II - (Out: 11/18/03; Due 12/09/03)

  Grievances

  • If you have a complaint about the grading of a homework or exam, please use the grievance procedure.

  Feedback from the Students

  • Survey #1
  • Survey #2

  Other Information

  • Some info on SYN Cookies
  • A write-up on SYN Flooding.
  • The Backscatter Analysis page.
  • Here is the string for Quiz 4.
  • Here is the certificate for the class's root CA. (Don't use unless it matches the fingerprint given in class on 11/06!)
  • Documents for OpenSSL
  • Read the policy on Use of CU-Boulder's Computing and Networking Resources.
  • Ghostscript/Ghostview/GSview - If you need software to preview/print PostScript

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