Computer Security was a Level 9 course given in Semester 2.
See the Course Catalogue entry.
The course lecturer was Myrto Arapinis.
The first lecture is on Mon 12th January 2015.
Slides will be added below as we go along. The slides from last year will give a good idea about what's coming up.
1. | 12 Jan. | Introduction to the course | view | |||
2. | 15 Jan. | Introduction to secure communications | view | |||
3. | 19 Jan. | Stream ciphers | view | |||
4. | 22 Jan. | Block ciphers | view | |||
5. | 26 Jan. | Hash functions and MACs | view | |||
6. | 29 Jan. | Asymmetric ciphers | view | |||
7. | 2 Feb. | Asymmetric ciphers | view | |||
8. | 5 Feb. | Cryptographic protocols (I) | view | |||
9. | 09 Feb. | Cryptographic protocols (II) | view | |||
10. | 12 Feb. | Protocols for anonymity | view | |||
11. | 2 Mar. | Access control | view | |||
12. | 9 Mar. | Buffer overflow attacks | view | |||
13. | 12 Mar. | Buffer overflow attacks | view | |||
14. | 19 Mar. | Web security: injection attacks | view | |||
15. | 30 Mar. | Web security: session hijacking, XSS, CSRF | view | |||
16. | 2 Apr. | Web security: session hijacking, XSS, CSRF | view |
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Lecture slides prepared by David Aspinall and Myrto Arapinis with
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