Computer and Network Security (203.3448/203.4448) - Winter 2012/3

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Winter 2012/3 General Information

The course shall be given in the technion as the computer security course (236350). For information which is relevant to all students of the course (slides, material, etc.), please check that website.

This website contains a few notes which are relevant to students of the university who take the course as 203.3448/203.4448. Please note that the registeration as a university student is using the standard registration system.

Exercise Submission

Exercises are to be submitted to the course's exercise box (floor one, next to lecture hall 9).
After grading, the exercises are available in the exercise returning room, which is in the ground floor (floor 0), next to the secretaries.

The course is going to be given at the Technion. Lecture hall 5 in the Taub, computer science building.:

Getting there by buses: 11,17,19,31,76,77,142 and the 2xx-3xx series of buses going between the university and the Technion.
Get off at the Senate bus stop (first in the technion) or the swimming pool one (last)
If you want to arrange for a transportation from the university, you need to have a committed group of people. Nadav has kindly volunteered to try and arrange that (please send him an email at ngreen05 (at-sign) campus (dot-sign) haifa (dot-sign) ac (dot-sign) il)
The lectures and tutorials start at the xx:30 mark. After 50 minutes, there is a 10 minutes break (after which the lecture will resume at xx:30).
Current toturial times: Tuesday 10:30-11:30, Wed. 15:30-16:30. The third one was cancelled at the moment (but we expect it to be revived, and happen on Wed. 9:30-10:30).
Important: Due to some techincal issues, the first tutorial on Tuesday, 23.10, will not take place(!)

Chores, Grades, Exams:

There will be 5-6 homework exercises. Their grade is Magen (25% in total) if your exam grade is more than 50.
You will follow the same rules as the Technion students. A Technion student who got the same grades as you on the exercises & exam will end with the same numeric grade (even though for him it may be failure and for you it is a passing grade).
Exam rules are like in the Technion:
- No "Vitoor" after half an hour in Moed B
- Moed Gimel - you ask the lecturer in charge (not "Va'adaa Fakoltatit"), but from past experience, this is going to be for "Meni'ot Chamorot" only, and will be Moed A of Spring semester)
- Masters students can come to Moed B (if you ask in advance not to have Moed A grade passed)
Please note - When you will go to the exam, please enter the room of the master students.

Website, Mailing List and Grades:
- The course website is http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/236350
- To register to the mailing list and get grades:
  - Go to the website of the course: http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/236350
  - Go to Grades section (see on the toolbar on the left).
  - Enter your ID, and "1234567890" as password.
  - You will be directed to a new window with several tabs.
  - Go to settings, and then to passwords.
  - Pick and save a password (type it twice).
  - Go to the settings, and then to email.
  - Put in your email address, and ask for confirmation code.
  - Get the confirmation code from the email the system sends you, and put it back into the system.
  - Go to settings, and to course list, and add "236350" to your course list.
  - Make sure you have "Computer Security" now in your course list
Operating systems: Please make sure you know how a function call stack is working on Intel platforms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_stack)

Please note that this semester, there is a seminar open both to B.A. and M.A. students in computer security, which will be given in the university on Sunday's 14:00-16:00. The seminar website is http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~orrd/CompSecSeminar/.