Schedule
This schedule can be changed at any time so that we have the flexibility to adjust the class to the students’ pace. Be sure to revisit this page often and remember to look at our Google Classroom for lecture slides and activities.
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | Jan. 21, 2025 | C language review: data types and portability, pointers, manual pages, library calls, debugging Lab 1 | C – Quick Guide man(1) gdb ddd |
| 2 | Jan. 28, 2025 | Unix system programming review: dynamic memory allocation, library calls. Lab 2 | Linux/ Unix Systems Programming Essentials printf(3) malloc(3), free(3), memcmp(3), mtkime(3) |
| 3 | Feb. 04, 2024 | Unix system programming review: system calls. Lab 3 | open(2), read(2), write(2), xxd(1) |
| 4 | Feb. 11, 2025 | Networking concepts (protocol stack, addresses); UDP sockets (client/server application) Lab 4 | Beej’s Guide to Network Programming socket(2), sendto(2), recvfrom(2), bind(2), memset(3), htons(3), htonl(3), gettimeofday(2), getaddrinfo(3) |
| 5 | Feb. 18, 2025 | TCP sockets: client/server application Lab 5 | Beej’s Guide to Network Programming socket(2), connect(2), bind(2), listen(2), accept(2), gethostbyname(3) |
| 6 | Feb. 25, 2024 | Fleshing out a client/server application Lab 6 | |
| 7 | Mar. 04, 2025 | Principles of software and network security Lab 7 | McGraw and Viega |
| 8 | Mar. 11, 2025 | Spring Break | |
| 9 | Mar. 18, 2025 | ARP, UDP, and TCP Lab 8 (Google Classroom) Packet capture and analysis (Wireshark) | RFCs at IETF To read or not to read? |
| 10 | Mar. 25, 2025 | DNS and TCP Lab 9 (Google Classroom) Packet capture and analysis (Wireshark) | |
| 11 | Apr. 01, 2025 | Quiz 1 Cryptography (secret key, public key), data integrity, file integrity | |
| 12 | Apr. 08, 2025 | Information security models (Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Chinese Wall) | |
| 13 | Apr. 15, 2025 | Quiz 2 Authentication; authentication protocols | |
| 14 | Apr. 22, 2025 | Authentication protocols | |
| 15 | Apr. 29, 2025 | Quiz 3 Malware |