Lecture Schedule

Lectures are shared between COSC312 and COSC412.

• Lecture 1 (DE): Introduction; security models; access control models; access control programming
• Lecture 2 (DE): Fundamentals of classical cryptosystems and one-time pads
• Lecture 3 (DE): Stream ciphers, key agreement and asymmetric cryptography
• Lecture 4 (MA): Quantum computation
• Lecture 5 (DE): Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
• Lecture 6 (DE): Block ciphers, HTTPS, TLS/SSL and certificates
• Lecture 7 (DE): Decentralised authorisation and OAuth 2.0
• Mid-semester break
• Lecture 8 (DE): Reliability, distributed consensus and bitcoin
• Lecture 9 (DE): Blockchain and Web3 / cryptocurrencies
• Lecture 10 (DE): Homomorphic Encryption
• Lecture 11 (DE): Programming language security
• Lecture 12 (DE): Hardware support for software security & emerging technology
• Lecture 13 (COSC412 + DE): Poster presentations and exam advice