L27: Network security

Notes

Use the raw slides (pdf) before lecture to take notes and refer to the annotated slides after lecture.

Wifi protocol

We discuss the basics of how wifi authentication works and show in a class demo how a password can easily succumb to a brute force offline attack.

Review of all the topics we’ve covered

  • Authentication, passwords
  • Authorization
  • Crypto
  • Ethics, cyberlaw
  • Social engineering
  • Voting
  • Anonymous data and its perils
  • Systems security
  • Exploits: buffers, sql, web, networks