Handouts

Handouts are available either viewed in the style of the web site, or as PDF files which are exactly the format of the paper version handed out in class.

• Handout 1: Syllabus [PDF]
• Handout 2: Assignment 1 (Due Monday, Sept 27) [PDF]
• Handout 3: Information on readings/paper reports (graduate students only) [PDF]
• Handout 4: Assignment 2 (Due Wednesday, Oct 20) [PDF]
• Handout 5: Assignment 3 (Due Monday, Nov 15) [PDF]
• Handout 6: Project Information [PDF]
• Handout 7: Assignment 4 (Due Monday, Dec 6) [PDF]

Readings

• Readings distributed Monday, August 23 (for everyone)
  • Ken Thompson. Reflections on Trusting Trust, Communications of the ACM, 27(8), pp. 761-763, 1984.
  • Diomidis Spinellis. Reflections on Trusting Trust Revisited, Communications of the ACM, 46(6), p. 112, 2003.
  These papers can be accessed from any on-campus computer, or from off-campus by logging in to the library web site. If neither of these work, please see Prof. Tate for copies of these readings

• Readings for graduate students:
  1. R. Sailer, X. Zhang, T. Jaeger, and L. V. Doorn, "Design and implementation of a TCG-based integrity measurement architecture," in Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 16-31, 2004.
  2. J. M. McCune, B. J. Parno, A. Perrig, M. K. Reiter, and H. Isozaki. "Flicker: an execution infrastructure for tcb minimization", in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems, pp. 315-328, 2008.
  3. L. F. G. Sarmenta, M. V. Dijk, C. W. O'Donnell, J. Rhodes, and S. Devadas. "Virtual monotonic counters and count-limited objects using a TPM without a trusted OS", in Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing, pp. 27-42, 2006.