Lectures (archive)

Lecture notes and other handouts (archive).

1. Lecture #4: History and Ethics of Copyright (31 July 2000). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
2. Lecture #5: Watermarking, Tamper-Proofing and Obfuscation (2 August 2000). Available in PPS format (500 KB) and in PDF.
3. Lecture #6a: Cohen, Operating System Protection Through Program Evolution (3 August 2000 presentation by J Macness). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
4. Lecture #6b: Margrave, GSM Security and Encryption (3 August 2000 presentation by J Li). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
5. Lecture #7a: Safeguarding and Charging for Information on the Internet (7 August 2000 presentation by Ho Yee Yip). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
6. Lecture #7b: Design of an Electronic Payment System (7 August 2000 presentation by Dong Qiang). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
7. Lecture #8a: Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (9 August 2000 presentation by Karl Von Randow). Available in PPS format and in PDF. (Updated 9 August 2000.)
8. Lecture #8b: The Maginot License (9 August 2000 presentation by Guanglun Yu). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
9. Lecture #9a: SCAM, a Copy Protection System for Digital Documents (10 August 2000 presentation by Dennis Peper). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
10. Lecture #9b: Survey of Web Security (Rubin & Geer) (10 August 2000 presentation by Ye Chen). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
11. Lecture #10, From Expo to Hollers, by Peter Smith of Lucent Technologies, 14 August 2000. Lecture slides and draft article "HOLR4-1: A fourth order linear recurrence-based public-key cryptosystem" are available in hardcopy from the instructor. Handout of 10 August 2000 contains "Cryptography without exponentiation" by Peter Smith, Dr Dobb's Journal 20:4, 26-30, April 1994; and excerpts (pp. 1-7; 70-73; 114-116; 162-164; 127-128) from Douglas R Stinson, Cryptography: Theory and Practice, CRC Press, 1995.
12. Lecture #11a: H.323 and Firewalls (Shore) (16 August 2000 presentation by Shannon McCracken). Available in PPS format and in PDF (updated 16 August 2000).
13. Lecture #11b: Breaking Abstractions and Unstructuring Data Structures (Collberg et al.) (16 August 2000 presentation by Hongying Lai). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
14. Lecture #12a: Security Issue in Mobile Code Systems (Chess) (17 August 2000 presentation by Ruobing Pan). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
15. Lecture #12b: Feedback on oral presentations to date; choosing topics for your term paper (17 August 2000 presentation by instructor). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
16. Lecture #13: Monday 21 August: Heather Mountifield, Subject Librarian for Science, speaking on "How the University Library can help you with your term paper." Available in PPS format and in PDF.
17. Lecture #14a: Exploring Steganography (Johnson & Jojodia) (23 August 2000 presentation by Chongjian Liu). Available in PPS format and in PDF (updated 23 Aug 00).
18. Lecture #14b: Kerberos (Neuman & T'so) (23 August 2000 presentation by Jian Jun Dong). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
19. Lecture #15a: Robustness and Security of Digital Watermarks (Matheson et al.) (24 August 2000 presentation by Fariba Shadabi). Available in PPS format and in PDF (updated 24 Aug 00).
20. Lecture #15b: Discussion of topics for your term paper (24 August 2000 presentation by instructor).
21. Lecture #16a: Experience with Software Watermarking (Palsberg et al.) (11 September 2000 presentation by Charles (Yong) He). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
22. Lecture #16b: Superdistribution (Mori & Kawahara) (11 September 2000 presentation by Ping Xu). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
23. Lecture #17a: RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (Baker et al.) (13 September 2000 presentation by Colin Coghill). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
24. Lecture #17b: Deducing Similarities in Java Sources from Bytecodes (Baker et al.) (13 September 2000 presentation by Ji Huang). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
25. Lecture #18a: Tamper Resistant Software (Aucsmith) (14 September 2000 presentation by Andrew Paxie). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
26. Lecture #18b: Java Security (Dean et al.) (14 September 2000 presentation by Yuhong Cai). Available in PPS format (142 KB) and in PDF (1.5 MB).
27. Monday, 18 September 2000: Sample questions for final exam. (See Tests and Exams page for sample answers.)
28. Lecture #20a: Extensible Security Architectures (Wallach et al.) (20 September 2000 presentation by David Waters). Available in PPS format and in PDF.
29. Lecture #20b: Signing, Sealing and Guarding Java Objects (Gong) (20 September 2000 presentation by Patrick Lam). Available in PPS format and in PDF.

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