CS574 Computer Security

San Diego State University - Spring 2008

Syllabus

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Class

The class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 1900 to 2015 (7:00 pm to 8:15 pm) in (currently) GMCS314.

Resources

Web Page

The class web-page is at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stremler/CS574/. If I need to convey important information to you outside of class, this is the primary method by which I will do that. Check the news page for late-breaking announcements.

Text

Pfleeger, C. P., Security in Computing, Fourth Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2007)

Instructor

Stewart Stremler
Public Email: (checked once a week)
   stremler@cs.sdsu.edu
   stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu
Office: GMCS540
Office Hours: 2020-? and by arrangement.
Office Phone: 619 594 1668

Email is the probably the best means of communicating with me during the day; I am generally not reachable by phone in any reliable sense. If you want a timely response, be sure to use the email address provided in class, and not the ones above. After class is reserved for office hours, but if nobody shows up I may go home.

Course Requirements & Grading

There will be two midterms and a final exam, and at least two projects.

These are the approximate weights I intend to use when computing your grade:
 Midterm 1 20%
 Midterm 2 20%
 Final 20%
 Project 1 20%
 Project 2 20%

The percentages will be adjusted accordingly if/when additional projects are assigned.

Grading policy:
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D
92+ 90-91 88-89 82-87 80-81 78-79 72-77 68-71 60-67

Topics

We will be following most of the topics in Pfleeger and using the text as a rough guide to the order that we tackle the topics.

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