| CSCI-4530 / CSCI-5530 Computer SecuritySaint Louis University  | 
| Date | Topic | Resources | Assignments | 
| Tue Jan 18 | Class Intro and Intro to Security Concepts | Join the Class Slack Channel | No-Tech Hacking Article (for HW1) | 
| Thu Jan 20 | Intro to Galois Fields and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | ||
| Tue Jan 25 | Symmetric Crypto and DES details | ||
| Thu Jan 27 | Intro to Galois Fields and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | Galois Field in Crypto | |
| Tue Feb 1 | Asymmetric crypto (RSA) | ||
| Thu Feb 3 | no class | ||
| Tue Feb 8 | RSA attacks, D-H and Elliptic Curve Crypto (ECC) | ||
| Thu Feb 10 | Crypto Review | ||
| Tue Feb 15 | Intro to networks and physical layer security | ||
| Thu Feb 17 | Layer 2 and its vulnerabilities | ||
| Tue Feb 22 | Layer 3: Attacks to ARP and IP | ||
| Thu Feb 24 | Digital Signatures | ||
| Thu Mar 3 | Secure Hash Functions | ||
| Tue Mar 8 | Dr. Tooska Dargahi (guest lecture) | ||
| Thu Mar 10 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Tue Mar 15 | Spring Break | ||
| Thu Mar 17 | Spring Break | ||
| Tue Mar 22 | SHA-1 details and HMAC | ||
| Thu Mar 24 | IPSec | ||
| Tue Mar 29 | Live Authentication and Certificate Authorities | ||
| Thu Mar 31 | Transport Layer Security | ||
| Tue Apr 5 | TLS details and Intro to DNS | ||
| Thu Apr 7 | DNSSEC and Intro to BGP | ||
| Tue Apr 12 | BGP Security | ||
| Thu Apr 14 | No Class (Easter Break) See SLU Calendar | ||
| Tue Apr 19 | Intro to Software Defined Infrastructures and DB | ||
| Thu Apr 21 | SQL Injections | ||
| Tue Apr 26 | Cloud Security and intro to malware | ||
| Thu Apr 28 | Ransomware and buffer overflow | ||
| Tue May 3 | Review for Final exam: part 1 of 2 | ||
| Thu May 5 | Review for Final exam: part 2 of 2 | ||
| Thu May 12 | Final Exam: from noon to 1:50pm | Same room as class Final Exam Schedule |