Computer Science
CS 6760: Privacy, Security, and Usability
Lecture - 4 credits
ND
EI
IC
FQ
SI
AD
DD
ER
WF
WD
WI
EX
CE
- Challenges conventional wisdom and encourages students to discover ways that security, privacy, and usability can be made synergistic in system design.
- Usability and security are widely seen as two antagonistic design goals for complex computer systems.
- Topics include computer forensics, network forensics, user interface design, backups, logging, economic factors affecting adoption of security technology, trust management, and related public policy.
- Uses case studies such as PGP, S/MIME, and SSL.
- Introduces basic cryptography and hash function as it is needed.
- Course work includes analysis of papers, problem sets, and a substantial term project.
Challenges conventional wisdom and encourages students to discover ways that security, privacy, and usability can be made synergistic in system design. Show more.