CEN 5540 Computer and Network Security (NTU ST-760-R)

Last modified 2006.03.08 Instructor: Richard Newman

Email address: nemo @ cise . ufl . edu
Office: E346 CSE
Phone: 352/392-1488/-1200 sec'y
Fax: 352/392-1220
Office Hours : MF 10:30-11:30, W 9-10
the departmental CEN 5540 web page

Announcements

Friday 21 April:
Exam 2 will be held at 3:00 pm on Friday April 28 as agreed, in CSE-E221 (regular classroom). Coverage is class notes; Pfleeger & Pfleeger (3/ed) Ch. 2,7; KPS (2/ed) Ch. 2-6, 9,11,12,15,17.
Friday 21 April:
REMINDER: Project 3 is due Tuesday 4/25
NOTE: Members of multi-person teams MUST indicate the contribution of EACH team member and effort required.
Friday 21 April:
Project Note: For paper projects, you are expected to submit
- Soft copy of paper, with title, authors, and references
- If there is original work in the paper, what is original and what is digested from other sources should be made explicit and clear
- Abstract.txt with title, authors, and contributions from each co-author
- Note that material copied from other sources is considered to be plagiarism unless it is properly cited - be thorough and be generous with credit to others
Friday 21 April:
Project Note: For implementation projects, you are expected to submit a tarball or zip file containing:
- README.txt file with title, author, date, contents of rest of archive (file name and contents) at a minimum, including team member names, contribution to project, and level of effort
- Installation and configuration information, including any standard system or envirnment requirements, how to install/compile/configure the system
- User information - how to run the system once installed, including options, bugs, diagnostics, and sample runs
- Complete source code, including makefile if appropriate, and any non-standard libraries, dlls, etc.
- Theory of operation documentation describing at a high level what the system does and how, including any references to other work, websites, open source code, etc.
- Programmmer's reference describing how the code is organized, data dictionary, class hierarchy, calling dependencies, what the various methods/functions/procedures/threads/processes do and how, plus any interesting/difficult data structures.
Friday 21 April:
Monday 4/24 - we will have guest speakers Charles Carmakal and Larry Taub from Price Waterhouse Coopers, topic is "Ethical Hacking"
Wednesday 22 March:
Please prepare your final project proposals and email them to me and to the TA. These may be done in teams of up to 4. Your part in the effort must be made explicit in the proposal as well as in the final report.
Wednesday 22 March:
Exam 1 is graded. The mean is 36 for undergrads, 37 for grads, with std. deviation of about 5 in both cases.
Wednesday 8 March:
On Emulab, you should seek admission as individuals, not as groups. Group admission requests will be denied unless and until I am convinced that there is no other way to share access.
Friday 24 February:
Exam 1: Ch. 1,3-5,8 Pfleeger & Pfleeger Ch. 10 KPS - FRI 3 March 2006
Wednesday 15 February:
Please sign up asap and participate in the Image-Based Authentication Survey
Friday 3 February:
Please register and attend Data Devolution Conference at the Levin Law School. This is FREE for UF students as long as you register online. Refer to that site for agenda information.