CIS4360

CIS4360/5379: Computer Security Fundamentals, Spring 2025

Announcements

12/23: Welcome to the class.





Course information

Lectures to date - grow with each class.
Syllabus.
Instructor: Viet Tung Hoang (Tung). Office hours: MF, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, virtual. See Canvas for Zoom link.

Latex Resources

Homework solution must be typed via LaTeX. LaTeX is the standard for typesetting scientific papers, and will likely come in handy outside CIS 4360. (Lab reports can be typed via MS Word.)

Homework template: Here's a Latex template (sample.tex) for typesetting homework and the pdf file (sample.pdf) that it produces. The file needs an image file ecb.pdf.

Guides to using LaTeX: An introduction to LaTeX can be found here. Another guide can be found at Wikibooks.

Online Environments: If you don't want to install LaTeX, ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are online environments which compile previews of your LaTeX documents as you type.

LaTeX Editors: There are many LaTeX editors which allow you to use GUI to edit your LaTeX. LyX is a free one.

Finding symbols: Detexify lets you draw the symbol that you are looking for and get LaTeX code. A static guide is here.

Online Crypto Resources

Introduction to Modern Cryptography, accessible graduate lecture notes by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway.
The Joy of Cryptography, undergraduate textbook by Mike Rosulek.

Slides and scribes

Logistics
Lecture 0: Introduction.
Lecture 1: Network Security
Lecture 2: Software Security
Lecture 3: Web Security
Lecture 4: Crypto
Lecture 5: Blockcipher
Lecture 6: Symmetric Encryption
Lecture 7: Message Authentication Code (MAC)
Lecture 8: Authenticated Encryption (AE).
Lecture 9: Hash Functions
Lecture 10: Asymmetric Crypto
Lecture 11: Public-Key Encryption
Lecture 12: Digital Signature.
Lecture 13: Public-key Infrastructure.

Last updated: 12/25/2024