CS 161: Computer Security

Announcements:

Homework 7 is due Monday, August 9th, 11:59 PM PT.
Project 3 is due Tuesday, August 10th, 11:59 PM PT.
Project 2 is due Friday, August 6th, 11:59 PM PT (extended from Tuesday).
The final exam will be on Thursday, August 12th, 5:00–8:00 PM PT. If you cannot make this time, please fill out this conflict form.
Optional: Lab 1 and Lab 2 are due Wednesday, August 11th, 11:59 PM PT.
Because of low attendance, we’ve converted Sid’s discussion (Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30 AM PT) to office hours.
We will be holding several topical review sections next week. We will be posting the review worksheets on Piazza in the next few days.
Thursday’s lecture (Anonymity and Tor) is the last lecture in scope for the final. Next week, we’ll have optional live lectures showing some practical and/or fun applications of material you’ve learned in the class. See the course website for the schedule and topics!

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 Videos	Intrusion Detection (solutions) (recording)
Mon 08/09	(Optional) 17. Signal		Final Review
Tue 08/10	(Optional) Special Topics (TBA)		Final Review
Wed 08/11	(Optional) Buffer Overflows in Super Mario Bros. 3
Thu 08/12	Final Exam (5:00–8:00 PM PT)	No lecture