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Fall 2025 Semester
Oct 17, 2026 |
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| CS 6760 - Privacy, Security, and Usability |
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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.
4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Computer Science Department Course Attributes: GSCS Computer & Info Science |
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