Course Calendar
6.1600 covers security and cryptography in five layers authentication, transport security, platform security, software security, and human/end-user security.
Lectures: MW11-12:30 (4-237)
Recitations: F11 (2-105)
Office hours (Anna): M7-8pm (35-310), W7-9pm (35-310), R3-4pm (Zoom)
Office hours (Bill): F3:30pm-5:30pm (8-205), Su10am-12pm (38-166)
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 4 Labor day |
sep 5 Registration day Review these handouts: Course info, Useful facts |
sep 6 LEC 1 (nz): What is security? (video, chapter) Published: Lab 0 First day of classes |
sep 7 | sep 8 |
| sep 11 LEC 2 (nz): Authenticating people (video, chapter) |
sep 12 | sep 13 LEC 3 (hcg): Collision resistance and file authentication (video, chapter) |
sep 14 DUE: Lab 0 |
sep 15 Published: Lab 1 |
| sep 18 LEC 4 (hcg): Message authentication codes (video, chapter) |
sep 19 | sep 20 LEC 5 (hcg): Digital signatures: Definition and hash-based schemes (video, chapter) |
sep 21 | sep 22 Student holiday |
| sep 25 LEC 6 (hcg): Digital signatures: RSA (video, chapter) |
sep 26 | sep 27 LEC 7 (hcg): Case study: Public-key infrastructure (video, chapter) |
sep 28 DUE: Lab 1 |
sep 29 REC 1: Review authentication (video, problems, sol, notes) Published: Lab 2 |
| oct 2 LEC 8 (hcg): Intro to transport security (video, chapter) the penguin |
oct 3 | oct 4 LEC 9 (hcg): Authenticated encryption (video, chapter) |
oct 5 | oct 6 ADD DATE |
| oct 9 Indigenous peoples day |
oct 10 Student holiday |
oct 11 LEC 10 (hcg): Key exchange and public-key encryption (video, chapter) |
oct 12 DUE: Lab 2 |
oct 13 Published: Lab 3 |
| oct 16 LEC 11 (nz): Encryption in practice (video, chapter) |
oct 17 | oct 18 LEC 12 (hcg): Open problems with encryption (video, chapter) |
oct 19 | oct 20 REC 2: Pre-midterm review (video, problems, sol, notes) |
| oct 23 LEC 13 (guest): Guest speaker from BU Tech Law Clinic (video) |
oct 24 | oct 25 Midterm exam: covers lectures 1-13, labs 0-2, psets 0-2 Time and location: same as lecture (Previous exams) |
oct 26 | oct 27 |
| oct 30 LEC 14 (nz): Architecting a secure system (video, chapter) |
oct 31 | nov 1 LEC 15 (nz): Isolation (video, chapter) |
nov 2 DUE: Lab 3 |
nov 3 REC 3: Bonus: Factoring (video, chapter) Published: Lab 4 |
| nov 6 LEC 16 (guest): Michael Duff, Harvard's Chief Information Security Officer (video) |
nov 7 | nov 8 LEC 17 (nz): Software trust (video, chapter) |
nov 9 | nov 10 Veterans day |
| nov 13 LEC 18 (hcg): Hardware security (video, chapter) |
nov 14 | nov 15 LEC 19 (hcg): Case study: iOS security (video, chapter) |
nov 16 DUE: Lab 4 |
nov 17 REC 4: Bonus: Elliptic curves (video) Published: Lab 5 |
| nov 20 LEC 20 (nz): Software security (video, chapter) |
nov 21 | nov 22 LEC 21 (nz): Privilege separation (video, chapter) DROP DATE |
nov 23 Thanksgiving |
nov 24 Institute holiday |
| nov 27 LEC 22 (nz): Bug-finding (video, chapter) |
nov 28 | nov 29 LEC 23 (nz): Runtime defenses (video, chapter) |
nov 30 | dec 1 REC 5: "Security jobs in industry", guest recitation by David Benjamin |
| dec 4 LEC 24 (hcg): Privacy: Zero knowledge (+Schnorr) (video, chapter) |
dec 5 | dec 6 LEC 25 (nz): Differential privacy (video, chapter) |
dec 7 DUE: Lab 5 |
dec 8 |
| dec 11 LEC 26 (guest): Nadia Heninger (UCSD) - Cryptographic attacks in practice |
dec 12 | dec 13 LEC 27 (hcg): Summary (video, chapter) Last day of classes |
dec 14 | dec 15 |
| dec 18 Final exam: 9am-12pm in 50-340 |
dec 19 | dec 20 | dec 21 | dec 22 |
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