A project done with another person or done for two courses would naturally be larger in scope than one done individually. There will be no incompletes granted, except in truly rare and unavoidable circumstances. All course work must be completed by the end of finals week. We will start by reading some seminal papers in security as background. The list will grow as both instructor and students identify additional papers.
Papers are also available on-line .
Brief information about each paper is also available on-line . Thanks to UC Davis' History of Security Project for this selection of papers. One of two seminal studies of computer system vulnerabilities. Described a number of attacks, including the trap-door compiler that Ken Thompson used so effectively in his Turing Award lecture. Described capability-based architectures.