| Date | Reading and Assignment | Agenda |
| Aug 27 Tue | Introduction and Overview | |
| Aug 29 Thu | Assignment 0 due: fill in survey form | Intro to Cryptography (J) |
| Sep 03 Tue | Assignment #1 out | Block Ciphers (J) |
| Sep 05 Thu | Block Ciphers (J) | |
| Sep 10 Tue | MOV 7.2.2, Survey thru 2.2.5 | Modes of Operation (J) |
| Sep 12 Thu | MOV 9.4, Survey thru 2.3 | Hash Functions (J) |
| Sep 17 Tue | Assignment #1 due; Assignment #2 out | Hashing and MACs(J) |
| Sep 19 Thu | Basic Number Theory (J) | |
| Sep 24 Tue | Public-Key Primitives (J) | |
| Sep 26 Thu | Efficient Implementations (J) | |
| Oct 01 Tue | Assignment #2 due | Intro to protocols: goals, basic design principles, some typical attacks, key exchange protocols (A) |
| Oct 03 Thu | n/a | Midterm I (Covering lectures through Tue Sep 26) |
| Oct 08 Tue | Assignment #3 out | Authentication protocols: mediated authentication, message authentication, hash-based authentication (A) |
| Oct 10 Thu | n/a | Fall Break -- No Class |
| Oct 15 Tue | Stallings Sec. 4.2 | SSL: basic structure of SSL/TLS (A) |
| Oct 17 Thu | History, Law and Policy (J) | |
| Oct 22 Tue | Stallings Sec. 7.2 | SSL II: protocol options and client/server example (A) |
| Oct 24 Thu | Assignment #3 due; Assignment #4 out | IPSec: basic architecture, AH, and ESP (A) |
| Oct 29 Tue | Stallings Sec. 6.1-6.4 | IPSec II: security associations and VPNs (A) |
| Oct 31 Thu | Stallings Sec. 6.5-6.6 | WEP (A) |
| Nov 05 Tue | Secure E-Mail: S-MIME and PGP (A) | |
| Nov 07 Thu | Assignment #4 due, Stallings pp. 292-303 | Intrusion Detection (A) |
| Nov 12 Tue | Midterm II (Covering lectures through Tue Oct 31) | |
| Nov 14 Thu | Assignment #5 out | Buffer Overflows (J) |
| Nov 19 Tue | Automated Software Checking (A) | |
| Nov 21 Thu | DNS, ICMP, Secure Routing (A) | |
| Nov 26 Tue | DDoS: Methods and Prevention (J) | |
| Nov 28 Thu | n/a | Happy Thanksgiving -- No Class |
| Dec 03 Tue | Assignment #5 due; Assignment #6 out | Protocol Failures: WEP and WTLS (J) |
| Dec 05 Thu | Firewalls and Packet Filtering (A) | |
| Dec 10 Tue | Stallings Sec. 10.1 | System Security: models, OS and database security (A) |
| Dec 12 Thu | Stallings Sec. 9.2 | Malicious Code: threats (viruses, worms, etc.) and protection mechanisms (signature-based anti-virus, sandboxing) (A) |
| Dec 14 Sat | Assignment #6 due | Final Exam -- 1:30pm to 4pm -- Comprehensive |