CS 161 Summer 2023

Announcements

Week 5 Announcements

Jul 17

Announcements:

• Since we’re halfway through the semester, we would love to receive your feedback on the class so far. Please fill out our mid-semester feedback form (instructions can be found on Ed).
• Homework 5 has been released and is due Friday, July 21st at 11:59 PM PT.
• Project 2 and Project 2 Design Review slots have been released. Look on Ed for how to sign up for design reviews.
• Midterm grades and solutions have been released.

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Course Calendar

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Wk.	Date	Lecture	Discussion	HW	Project
1	Mon Jun 19	No lecture (Juneteenth)	No discussion	HW1
	Tue Jun 20	1. Introduction and Security Principles Slides / Recording / Ch. 1			Project 1 Checkpoint
	Wed Jun 21	2. x86 Assembly and Call Stack Slides / Recording / Ch. 2 / x86/GDB Cheat Sheet	1. Security Principles and x86 Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video
	Thu Jun 22	3. Memory Safety Vulnerabilities Slides / Recording / Ch. 3
2	Mon Jun 26	4. Memory Safety Vulnerabilities II Slides / Recording / Ch. 3	2. Memory Safety Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video	HW2
	Tue Jun 27	5. Mitigating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities Slides / Recording / Ch. 4
	Wed Jun 28	6. Intro to Cryptography Slides / Recording / Ch. 5	3. Memory Safety Mitigations Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video
	Thu Jun 29	7. Block Ciphers and Modes of Operation Slides / Recording / Ch. 6
3	Mon Jul 03	8. Cryptographic Hashes and MACs Slides / Recording / Ch. 7 / Ch. 8	4. Symmetric Cryptography Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video	HW3	Project 1
	Tue Jul 04	No lecture (fourth of July)
	Wed Jul 05	9. PRNGs and Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Slides / Recording / Ch. 9 / Ch. 10	5. Integrity and Authenticity Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video
	Thu Jul 06	10. Public-Key Encryption and Digital Signatures Slides / Recording / Ch. 11 / Ch. 12
4	Mon Jul 10	11. Certificates, Passwords, and Case Studies Slides / Recording / Ch. 13 / Ch. 14	6. Asymmetric Cryptography Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video	HW4	Project 2 Design
	Tue Jul 11	12. Intro to Web Slides / Recording / Ch. 18 / Ch. 19
	Wed Jul 12	13. Cookies and CSRF Slides / Recording / Ch. 20 / Ch. 21	7. Midterm Review Worksheet / Solutions
	Thu Jul 13	14. XSS and UI Attacks Slides / Recording / Ch. 22 / Ch. 23
5	Mon Jul 17	15. SQL Injection and CAPTCHAs Slides / Recording / Ch. 17 / Ch. 24	8. Cookies and CSRF Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video	HW5
	Tue Jul 18	16. Intro to Networking Slides / Recording / Ch. 25
	Wed Jul 19	17. Low-Level Network Attacks Slides / Recording / Ch. 26 / Ch. 27 / Ch. 28	9. SQL Injection and XSS Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions / Video
	Thu Jul 20	18. BGP, TCP, and UDP Slides / Recording / Ch. 29 / Ch. 30
6	Mon Jul 24	19. TLS Slides / Recording / Ch. 31	10. ARP, DHCP, WPA, TCP Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions	HW6	Project 2
	Tue Jul 25	20. DNS Slides / Recording / Ch. 32
	Wed Jul 26	21. DNSSEC Slides / Recording / Ch. 33	11. TCP and TLS Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions
	Thu Jul 27	22. Denial of Service and Firewalls Slides / Recording / Ch. 34 / Ch. 35
7	Mon Jul 31	23. Intrusion Detection Slides / Recording / Ch. 36	12. DNS Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions	HW7	Project 3
	Tue Aug 01	24. Malware and Hardware Vulnerabilities Slides / Recording / Ch. 38
	Wed Aug 02	25. Special Topics (Paul Vixie)	13. Intrusion Detection Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep / Solutions
	Thu Aug 03	26. Tor Slides / Recording / Ch. 39
8	Mon Aug 07	27. Special Topics (Nicholas Weaver)	14. Tor and Firewalls Worksheet / Solutions / Video
	Tue Aug 08	28. Special Topics (Peyrin Kao)
	Wed Aug 09	Final Exam (4pm–7pm PT)	15. Final Review
	Thu Aug 10	29. Bonus Special Topics (Robert Pratt)