CS 325 Course Materials
Fall 2011

General

• Syllabus: PDF, HTML.
• Spring 2010 course materials.

Resources

• Perl and CGI Resources
  • hello.pl, a simple Perl program. Read the comments for important notes. addshells, a program demonstrating file I/O and recording parsing in Perl.
  • Perl Language Reference. Of particular interest would be the Reference sections (Language, Functions, etc.) in the left column.
  • Check CPAN for info on non-core Perl modules.
  • Perl Quick Reference Guide (parts may be a bit out of date).
  • Tutorials. There are many, many tutorials available on Perl and CGI.pm, the Perl module for CGI programming. Here are three to get you started. Use Google to find more tutorials. A Perl tutorial (PDF version). A CGI.pm tutorial. Another CGI.pm tutorial.
  • Books. Learning Perl is my recommendation for someone just starting out. Programming Perl is a thorough, complete reference to Perl. CGI Programming with Perl provides background on CGI.pm.
  • You can get electronic access to these books through O'Reilly's Safari program for $27.99 a month. O'Reilly offers a free 10 day trial of this service. Check here for details.
  • Man pages. Get to a shell on phoenix and run "man perl". This will provide you with an index of many, many other man pages on Perl that are available to you.
  • Even more resources are available here.
• Software Requirements Specification Resources
  • IEEE Standard 830-1998. (Password required --- see instructor.)
  • Example IEEE 830-1998 Software Requirements Specification. (Password required --- see instructor.)

Reading Assignments

• Week 1: Aug. 29: 1.1--1.4. Aug. 31: 1.5--1.9.
• Week 3: Sept. 12: 2.1--2.8.
• Week 5: Sept. 26: 3.1--3.3. Sept. 28: 3.4--3.7.
• Week 6: Oct. 1: 4.1--4.3.
• Week 8: Oct. 17: 4.3--4.4. Oct. 19: 4.5. Oct. 21: 5.1--5.2.
• Week 10: Nov. 2: 5.3. Nov. 4: 5.4.
• Week 11: Nov. 7: 5.5 Nov. 9: 6.1--6.3. Nov. 11: 6.4--6.5.
• Week 12: Nov. 14: 7.1.
• Week 14: Dec. 5: 7.2. Dec. 7: 7.3--7.4.

Assignments and Projects

• Assignment 1, 100 points, due Nov. 21. PDF, HTML.

Presentations

• Oct. 14: Owen, PGP.
• Oct. 21: Tim, system intrusion detection; Owen, digital certificates.
• Oct. 28: Dylan, network security scanners; Anna, traditional authentication and authorization.
• Nov. 4: Ari, redirect script injection; Jeremy, password crackers.
• Nov. 11: Dylan, PAM; Anna, message digest algorithms.
• Nov. 18: Jeremy, man-in-the-middle attacks; Ari, social engineering.
• Dec. 2: Tim, network intrustion detection; (Avery, database comparisons).

Meeting Outlines

• Week 1: Aug. 29 PDF, HTML. Aug. 31: Introduction, continued. Sept. 2 PDF, HTML.
• Week 2: Sept. 7 PDF, HTML. CGI lab PDF, HTML. Working version of the lab. Sept. 9: CGI Lab.
• Week 3: Sept. 12: CGI Lab. Sept. 14 PDF, HTML.
• Week 4: Sept. 19 PDF, HTML.
• Week 5: Sept. 26 PDF, HTML. Sept. 28: Forensics discussion. Sept. 30: Finish Monday's material; PDF, HTML.
• Week 6: Oct. 3 PDF, HTML.
• Week 7: Oct. 10, 12: Operating system security. Oct. 14: Project discussion.
• Week 8: Oct. 17 PDF, HTML. Oct. 19 PDF, HTML.
• Week 9: Oct. 24: Presentations, exam review, finish user authentication. Oct. 26: Exam. Oct. 28 PDF, HTML.
• Week 10: Nov. 2 PDF, HTML. Nov. 4 PDF, HTML.
• Week 11: Nov. 7 PDF, HTML. Nov. 9 PDF, HTML. Nov. 11 PDF, HTML.
• Week 13: Dec. 2 PDF, HTML.
• Week 14: Dec. 5 PDF, HTML.