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  • who: Michael Swift
  • where: Room 7369
  • when: Monday 11-12, Thursday 1:30-2:30
  • email: swift 'at' cs.wisc.edu
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  • Operating system security basics
    • Memory protection
    • Authentication
    • Access control
  • Low-level software security
    • Attacks
      • Buffer overflows
      • Format-string vulnerabilities
      • Integer overflows
      • Heap overflows
      • Return-oriented programming
    • Attack discovery
      • Fuzzing
      • Reverse engineering
      • Static and dynamic analysis
    • Protections
      • Memory protection mechanisms
      • Address-space layout randomization
      • Sandboxing and Containment
  • Hardware security
    • Spectre/meltdown
    • Side channels
    • SGX/enclaves
    • Trusted platform modules
    • ORAM (optional)
  • Network security
    • Attacks
      • Packet sniffing
      • Man-in-the-middle
      • Protocol attacks: ARP, IP fragmentation, Denial of service
      • Port scanning, host fingerprinting, stealth scans
      • Routing and Naming: BGP, DNS
    • Defenses
      • Firewalls
      • Intrustion detection systems
      • DNSsec, S-BGP, IPsec
  • Web seurity
    • Browsers
      • Same origin policy, cookies, isolation
    • Attacks
      • SQL Injection
      • Cross-site scripting and request forgery
    • Defenses
  • Cryptography
    • public vs secret key encryption models
    • Transport-layer security (TLS)
    • Block ciphers
      • Block cipher modes
      • Hash functions and HMACs
    • Public-key cryptography
      • Diffie-helman key eschange
      • RSA
    • Random numbers
  • Privacy and censorship
    • The Onion Router (TOR)
    • Great firewall of China
    • Differential Privacy
  • Virtualization and cloud security
    • Virtual machine security
    • Cloud security and side channels
  • Blockchain
    • Distributed ledgers
    • Bitcoin
    • Ethereum and Smart Contracts
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