| Date | Reading/Assignment | Agenda |
| Aug 26 Tue | Introduction | |
| Aug 28 Thu | Ch 1 | Networking Overview |
| Sep 02 Tue | Viruses and Worms | |
| Sep 04 Thu | Ch 2 | Intro to Cryptography |
| Sep 09 Tue | H/W #1 out | Classical Crypto, Attack Models, Authentication Protocols |
| Sep 11 Thu | Public-Key model, MACs, Digital Signatures | |
| Sep 16 Tue | H/W #1 due; Read Ch 3 | Cryptographic Hashing, Block Ciphers |
| Sep 18 Thu | Quiz #1 | DES |
| Sep 23 Tue | Review Quiz #1 | DES and AES |
| Sep 25 Thu | Ch 4 (skip 4.2.3, 4.2.4) | Modes: ECB, CBC, and CTR |
| Sep 30 Tue | MACs | |
| Oct 02 Thu | Fall Break (no class) | |
| Oct 07 Tue | H/W #2 due | Buffer Overruns |
| Oct 09 Thu | Quiz #2 | Finish up Buffer Overruns |
| Oct 14 Tue | Review Quiz #2, Quiz #3, Intro to OpenSSL | |
| Oct 16 Thu | Quiz #3 due; Quiz #4 out | RSA Cryptosystem |
| Oct 21 Tue | Midterm | |
| Oct 23 Tue | RSA Handout, Ch 6.3, 6.6 | Quiz3 rehash, MT rehash, More RSA |
| Oct 28 Tue | Finish RSA | |
| Oct 30 Thu | Signatures, PKI | |
| Nov 04 Tue | Hand Out Project Phase I | Certificates and OpenSSL |
| Nov 06 Thu | Quiz #5 | Authenticated Encryption |
| Nov 11 Tue | Proj Phase I due; DDoS Report | Distributed Denial of Service |
| Nov 13 Thu | No Class | |
| Nov 18 Tue | Project Phase Ib Out | Project Chat; More DDoS |
| Nov 20 Thu | Reflection Attacks; Ingress Filters; Session Hijacking; Traceback | |
| Nov 25 Tue | Project Phase Ib Due; Trusting Trust | SYN Cookies; Backscatter; Trojans |
| Nov 27 Thu | Thanksgiving -- No Class | |
| Dec 02 Tue | WEP Insecurities Paper | Wireless Security |
| Dec 04 Thu | WEP Key Cracking Write-up | Attack on WEP |
| Dec 09 Tue | Projects Due | Firewalls |
| Dec 11 Thu | Final Review | |
| Dec 15 Mon | Final Exam -- 7:30am to 10am |