Secure software design
MTAT.03.246 Secure software design MTAT.03.247 Secure software design: Project work
Lectures: Wednesdays 10:00 Cyber-126.
Contact: margus at cyber.ee
Lecture slides:
- Introduction
- Multilevel security
- Multilateral security
- Estonian Health Information System
- Inference control in medicine
- Banking and bookkeeping, Home reading, starting from section 10.4
- Introduction to cryptography
- Coding Centre, Additional reading (in Estonian): description of coding centre, security analysis
- Strategies for developing secure software, Home reading
- Guidelines for developing secure software, part 2
- Human factors and security, Interesting reading
- X-Road, Additional reading
- Security of online games
- PKI and digital signatures, part 1
- PKI and digital signatures, part 2
Mandatory (examinable) reading. The exam may contain questions from these papers.
- Chapter 10 from "Security Engineering", starting from section 10.4
- Ross Anderson, "Programming Satan's Computer"
- Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust"
- Peter Gutmann, "Lessons Learned in Implementing and Deploying Crypto Software"
- Ross Anderson, "The Eternity Service" -- a good example of security analysis of a system
Recommended reading:
- Ross Anderson, "Security Engineering. A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems"
- Fraud. The Unmanaged Risk, 8th Global Survey
- Peter Gutmann, "The Design of a Cryptographic Security Architecture"
- RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
- Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar, "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0"
- Kevin Mitnick, "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security"
- David Maurer, "The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man"
- Jim Routh, Gary McGraw, "Lifestyle Hackers"
- Arne Ansper, "e-Riigist andmeturbe seisukohalt"
- Arne Ansper, Ahto Buldas, Margus Freudenthal, Jan Willemson "Scalable and Efficient PKI for Inter-Organizational Communication"
- Peter Gutmann, "X.509 Style Guide"
- Ahto Buldas, Märt Saarepera. "Electronic Signature System with Small Number of Private Keys"