Schedule

This is a tentative schedule. Things will change / evolve as we work through discussions together.

Week	Class Topic	Deadlines
1	Introduction - This World of Ours - The Security Mindset - How to Read a Paper Passwords - The Tangled Web of Password Reuse
2	Passwords - Your Pa$$word doesn’t matter - Fast, Lean, and Accurate: Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks Biometric Auth - Impact of Artificial “Gummy” Fingers on Fingerprint Systems
3	Metadata - Metadata: Piecing Together a Privacy Solution Anonymity - Blind signatures for untraceable payments
4	Project Discussions Academic Writing - The Craft of Writing Effectively
5	Anonymity - Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms - Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router	Project Proposal
6	Anonymity - Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions Attacking Anonymity - Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries.
7	Attacking Anonymity - Circuit Fingerprinting Attacks: Passive Deanonymization of Tor Hidden Services Stronger Anonymity - Vuvuzela: Scalable Private Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis	Project Proposal Reviews
8	Practical Anonymity - The Decoupling Principle: A Practical Privacy Framework - iCloud Private Relay Overview Censorship - Alibi Routing
9	Censorship - Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting - The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications	Security Reviews
10	Mobile Censorship Resistance - Moby: A Blackout-Resistant Anonymity Network for Mobile Devices Mobile Location Attacks - Location Leaks on the GSM Air Interface
11	Mobile Location Anonymity - Pretty Good Phone Privacy Mobile Apps - An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
12	Security Review Presentations ML for Security - Outside the Closed World: On Using Machine Learning For Network Intrusion Detection
13	No class - work on your projects	Full Paper Deliverable
14	ML Privacy Attacks - Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models Network Protocols - Oblivious DNS: Practical Privacy for DNS Queries
15	Ethics - Rogaway: The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work	Paper Reviews
16	Project Presentations
17	Finals Week	Revised Papers Due