Topics will include authentication, protection, security models, cryptography, applications, and public policy, along with case studies. Homeworks are due at the start of the class of their due date. Students may be asked to solve problems in class. Each student should be prepared to discuss each homework question. Students are encouraged to discuss the course and the assignments and the homework with each other, however, your exams should be your own work.
Joint projects are acceptable with proper documentation and commensurate scope.
There will be two or three midterms and no final. Exams are all closed book, but each student may bring one 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of notes to each examination.