Nov 20: Documentation on StackGuard is available here. Documentation on Splint is available here.
Nov 7: The Snort network intrusion detection system is available on-line at www.snort.org. A user manual is also available from the same site.
Nov 6: The following two articles explain some of the vulnerabilities of WEP. The first article also contains a short description of WEP.
Nov 2: Small set of notes on ssl and client/server computing, and a simple example of a client/server application.
Oct 17: Notes for the History, Law, and Policy lecture can be found here.
Sep 24: The previous set of notes has now been augmented to contain some details on RSA encryption as well as the prior stuff on groups.
Sep 19: Some supplemental notes on groups and number theory by John.
Sep 12: Some supplemental notes from Modes and Hashing lecture by John.
Sep 5: There is a detailed report available on the AES selection process if you want more details of how Rijndael was chosen.
Sep 3: Some supplemental notes from DES lecture by John.