comradespark / ucb-cs161

computer security

UCB - CS161 : computer security

this repository will contain all my learning materials for UCB CS161 course, you can check its official website for more details.

This course is divided into 5 sections:

• Security principles : how to design a secure system
• Memory safety : buffer overflow attack
• Cryptography : symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, MAC, digital signature .........
• Web : SQL, XSS, CSRF .......
• Networking : attacks for each layer

The shining part of the course is the labs and projects, which will greatly enhance your mastery of the knowledge (See below for more details).

Resources

• Slides : ppt for each course
• Notes : detailed notes for each section
• Discussions : TA will go over the key ideas of the week first, then you can practice on some problems.
• Homework : on gradescope
• Labs : there are three labs in total
  • padding oracle : how to make use of the padding oracle to breach the block cryption.
  • a real attack : a real problem countered in the CS61A's exam file releasing
  • networking : packet sniffing, RST TCP, DNS ... ...
• Projects : there are three projects in total
  • Proj1 : Hack into the VM use buffer overflow attack. You will do some real attacks on the providing virtualbox virtual machine.
  • Proj2 (warning) : This is a very code-heavy projects. You will implement a secure file sharing system in Go language. Here is my implementation and design doc.
  • Proj3 : TBA

Want to learn more ?

Check out this repository which contains all my self-learning materials : )