6.857 Course Announcement - Fall 2002

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 - 4:00
Room 6-120
3-0-9

This is an upper-level undergraduate, first-year graduate course on network and computer security. It fits within the Computer Systems and Architecture Engineering Concentration. Topics covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

Techniques for achieving security in multi-user computer systems and distributed computer systems
Cryptography: secret-key, public-key, digital signatures
Authentication and identification schemes
Intrusion detection: viruses
Formal models of computer security
Secure operating systems
Software protection
Security of electronic mail and the World Wide Web
Electronic commerce: payment protocols, electronic cash
Firewalls
Risk assessment

Underground Review (available with MIT Personal Certificates only): 2001 1999 1998 1997 1996

Prerequisites:

6.033 and 6.042. Limited Enrollment.

Staff

Lecturer
Ronald L. Rivest	rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu	NE43-324	x3-5880
Course Secretary
Be Blackburn	be@theory.lcs.mit.edu	NE43-322	x3-6098
Teaching Assistants
Kevin Fu	fubob@mit.edu	NE43-520	x3-7436
Thien-Loc Nguyen	nguyentl@theory.lcs.mit.edu	NE43-369	x3-1499

Course staff mailing list: 6.857-staff@mit.edu
Use this mailing list to contact the 6.857 staff members.

TA Office Hours

Kevin Fu	Wednesday 3-5PM in NE43-520
Thien-Loc Nguyen	Tuesday 4-6PM in NE43-369

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