Lecture Schedule

Lectures are shared between COSC312 and COSC412. Topics of future lectures are indicative.

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