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This page was updated on 31 October 2008.

Announcements

  • 20 November, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Cloud Computing and Privacy, hosted by the NZ Privacy Commissioner.
  • 5 November, from 6pm to 9pm: OWASP meeting, with free admission to anyone interested in application security, with 1-hour presentations by Brett Moore of Insomnia Security on "Common Application Flaws - Explain, Detect, Prevent", and by Beau Butler of Security-Assessment.com on "In your Browser, Jackin your Clicks".
  • 3 November: Public lecture by Lawrence Lessig.
  • Tutorials are in room 187.
  • Handling absence or illness:
    1. If you must leave for family emergencies etc, PLEASE talk to the lecturer, or somehow get a message to the department. Very few problems are so urgent that we cannot be told quite quickly.
    2. For problems affecting assignments or tests, see the lecturer (or send email, or call on the telephone).  This must be done as soon as reasonably possible, if we are to make alternative arrangements that will prevent you from getting a poor mark on this test or assignment.
    3. For illness during exams (or other problems that affect exam performance) students MUST contact the Examinations Office as soon as possible, and in any event within a week. The time limits and other rules of the University's Aegrotat Policy are strictly enforced.
    4. Many students have missed out on a whole semester of study because they just went away.  Many students have failed an examination because they did not report problems until they received the failing grade. In general, if there is a problem that will affect your study you should speak to someone as soon as possible.
    5. Students should sit the examination if at all possible, even if they do nothing much more than hand in a script with their name.
    6. Students should read the examinations handbook that they receive, and they should double-check the examination timetable to make sure they don't miss any of their exams.
  • Archived announcements.

Tentative Schedule

Note: the date listed for student presentation #x is the approximate date on which this presentation will occur; dates will be adjusted when students drop.  Students will be assigned numbers by a random process during the first week of classes.

  1. Week 1 (21 July - 25 July).  Select class representative. 
  2. Week 2 (28 July - 1 August). Select papers and dates for student oral presentations in Weeks 5-13. No lecture on Friday 1 August.
  3. Week 3 (4 August - 8 August). Finalise the selection of papers and dates for student oral presentations.  Discuss how to prepare an oral presentation. Discuss term project requirements.
  4. Week 4 (11 August - 15 August).  Tutorial sessions: Students #1 - #4 give practice oral presentations.  No lecture on Friday 15 August.
  5. Week 5 (18 August - 22 August). Student oral presentations #1 - #4: each presentation will be 10 minutes in length, with an 8-minute discussion period.  Tutorial sessions: Students #5 - #8 give practice oral presentations.
    • Assignment 1 due by email to instructor before lecture of Friday 22 August: Term paper or project proposal (one sentence).
  6. Week 6 (25 August - 29 August).  Student oral presentations #5 - #8. No lecture on Friday 29 August.

    Term break (30 August - 14 September)
     
  7. Week 7 (15 September - 19 September). Tutorial sessions: Students #9 - #12 give practice oral presentations. No lecture on Monday 15 September.
    • Assignment 2 due by email to instructor before lecture of Friday 19 September: first draft of title, synopsis and references (with complete bibliographic detail) for term paper; or goal statement of term project, list of software & hardware resources required and a plan for obtaining these, and proposed methodology.
    • Handout 10: Cryptography and Steganography (version 1.0 of 10 August 2007).
    • [R16] M. Stamp, Information Security: Principles and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., September 2005, pp. 1-7, 11-21, 26-30, 33-39, 50-51, 54-55, 61-62, 75-81, 85-87, 100-104, 325-338.
    • Handout 11: Trusted Operating Systems (Mark Stamp's lecture slides).
    • [R17] M. Stamp, Information Security: Principles and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., September 2005, pp. 325-338.
  8. Week 8 (22 September - 26 September).  Student oral presentations #9 - #12. Tutorial sessions: Students #13 - #16 give practice oral presentations.
  9. Week 9 (29 September - 3 October). Student oral presentations #13 - #16. Tutorial sessions: Students #17 - #20 give practice oral presentations.
    • Assignment 3 due Friday 3 October, by email to instructor, sent before lecture begins: title and abstract, for publication on class website; and a detailed outline of your term paper or project report.
    • Handout 12: Finalising your Term Paper (updated 10 Oct 08 with correct deadlines).
  10. Week 10 (6 October - 10 October). Monday: student oral presentations #17 - #20. Tutorial sessions: Students #21 - #24 give practice oral presentations. 
  11. Week 11 (13 October - 17 October). Student oral presentations #21 - #22.
  12. Week 12 (20 October - 24 October). Monday: student oral presentations #23 - #24. Friday: discussion of student answers to sample final exam.
  13. Final Examination. Date and time to be arranged. This will be a 2-hour examination, with a brief settling-in and exam-reading period before the examination begins. Closed book, no calculators. The location will be announced on the morning of the exam (and possibly as early as 5pm on the day prior to the exam), at nDeva, at the Exams Office website, and by hardcopy postings on campus.


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