Assignments
Date Posted | Date Due | Assignment | Turn-in Method |
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Thursday, 9/9 | Tuesday, 9/14 | Getting to Know You. | Submit form |
Thursday, 9/9 | Wednesday, 9/15 | Sign a printed copy of the "Code of Ethics". | Box in CS common area |
Thursday, 9/9 | Wednesday, 9/15 | Read "The Cuckoo's Egg" chapters 1-9 and answer the following questions. | Box in CS common area |
Thursday, 9/9 |
not graded you will start this in-lab on 9/15 |
Do Lab 0: Setting up Your Raspberry Pi. Windows users will need the following files: FTDI USB-TTY driver PuTTY terminal emulator |
n/a |
Thursday, 9/16 | Wednesday, 9/22 |
Read "The Psychology of Security," Part 1 and Part 2 by Bruce Schneier and answer the following question. |
GitHub |
Thursday, 9/16 | Sunday, 9/26 |
Do Lab 1: Login Security. Required reading: Pseudoterminals. Starter code: cs331-login-starter.zip (to tide you over until I create your repositories). |
GitHub |
Wednesday, 9/22 | Wednesday, 9/29 |
Read "Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off" by Philippe Oechslin and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. Since this is likely your first time writing a technical review, be sure to read this note on how to write one. |
GitHub |
Wednesday, 9/22 | Sunday, 10/3 |
Complete part 1 of your final project. |
GitHub |
Wednesday, 9/29 |
not graded you will start this in-lab on 9/29 |
Do Lab 2: Hashtables in C. Starter code: hashtable-starter.zip. |
n/a |
Wednesday, 9/29 |
Part 1: Sunday, 10/10 Part 2: Sunday, 10/17 |
Do Lab 3: Password Cracking. Required reading: "Why Stolen Password Databases are a Problem" and "Trading Time for Space" |
GitHub |
Thursday, 9/30 | Wednesday, 10/6 |
Read "On User Choice in Graphical Password Schemes" by Davis et al. and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Sunday, 10/10 | Wednesday, 10/13 |
No reading this week. Focus on Lab 3, part 2. |
n/a |
Thursday, 10/21 | Wednesday, 10/27 |
Read "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" by Aleph One and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Wednesday, 10/27 |
not graded you will start this in-lab on 10/27 |
Do Lab 4: The A32 Calling Convention. Here are more blank call stacks in case you want to practice. Starter code: Makefile lab4.c |
n/a |
Wednesday, 10/27 | Sunday, 10/31 |
Fill out the final project partner sign-up sheet to let me know who you plan to work with for the final project. |
Submit form |
Wednesday, 10/27 | Sunday, 11/14 |
Complete part 2 of your final project with your partner. |
Github |
Thursday, 10/28 | Sunday, 11/7 |
Do Lab 5: Stack Smashing, Part 1. Read "Assembly-Level Debugging with gdb". Read "Creating a Shellcode File". Watch "Finding a Return Address on the Stack Using gdb (ARM edition)". If you are curious, you can also watch the older x86 edition. |
Github |
Friday, 10/29 | Wednesday, 11/3 |
Read An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities by Miller et al. and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Thursday, 11/4 | Wednesday, 11/10 |
Undefined Behavior: What Happened to My Code? by Wang et al. and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Sunday, 11/7 | Sunday, 11/21 |
Do Lab 7: Stack Smashing, Part 2. |
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Wednesday, 11/10 |
not graded you will start this in-lab on 11/10 |
Do Lab 6: Removing NULL bytes. Starter code: code.c code.solution.c |
n/a |
Thursday, 11/11 | Wednesday, 11/17 |
Cryptology and Physical Security: Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks by Matt Blaze and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Tuesday, 11/16 | Friday, 12/10 |
Complete the third and final part of your project with your partner. |
Github |
Monday, 11/22 | Wednesday, 12/1 |
Read Preventing Privilege Escalation by Provos et al. and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Monday, 11/22 | Wednesday, 12/8 |
Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |
Monday, 11/29 | Wednesday, 12/1 |
Fill out the final project presentation availability form. |
Submit form |
Wednesday, 12/1 |
not graded you will start this in-lab on 12/1 |
Do Lab 8: Tracing programs. Starter code: prog1.c prog2 prog2-x64 (if you want to run this on a CS lab machine) |
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Wednesday, 12/8 | Saturday, 12/18 |
(Optional, for extra credit) Read This World of Ours by James Mickens and write a technical review that responds to the following prompt. |
Github |