- Final Exam, Tuesday December 14, 9:00 AM to noon, in D243 LSRC.
The scope of the exam is: all papers with links from the topics page, excluding those marked as "optional",
and all powerpoint slides linked from the topics page. As always, the focus is
on key ideas (summarized on the slides) rather than details of the
papers. This is a closed book exam: you may bring one page of notes
(both sides). Please no electronics.
- Project meetings and exit interviews may be scheduled for the
weeks of December 6 and December 13. All meetings and materials
must be completed by Thursday December 16 at 4:00 PM. Please
schedule with Vamsi.
- For Friday, December 3, Stefan Saroiu of Microsoft Research
will talk about trusted computing and trusted sensors. This
material will not be covered on the exam. [abstract and bio]
- For Wednesday, December 1, we have a short discussion of
group communication (CATOCS) to wrap up some distributed systems
topics. Optional reading on CATOCS: A
high-profile attack on a colleague's research [PDF]. We will
also discuss clouds and cloud security. The thought paper I
mentioned: What's
New About Cloud Computing Security? [PDF]
- For Friday, November 19: [BAN]A Logic of
Authentication. SOSP 1989.
- For Wednesday, November 17: [CATS07]
Strong accountability for network storage.
By Aydan R. Yumerefendi and Jeff Chase. In
Trans. Storage, 3(3):11, 2007. Special issue: selected
papers from the Fifth USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). This version is the FAST version.
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