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27 March 2025
- 21:2321:23, 27 March 2025 diff hist +3,203 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 21 No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 27 March 2025 diff hist +428 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 21 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/burgess-nspw2018.pdf Burgess, "After the BlockCloud Apocalypse." (NSPW 2018)] ==Discussion Questions== * Which predictions were the most plausible? implausible? * What relevant advancements/developments (technical or otherwise) were missed in the timeline that could change the envisioned trajectory? * What can we do to avoid a blockcloud apocalypse? ==Notes=="
25 March 2025
- 18:5318:53, 25 March 2025 diff hist +3,944 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 20 No edit summary current
- 15:3015:30, 25 March 2025 diff hist +628 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 20 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/somayaji-nspw97.pdf Somayaji, "Principles of a Computer Immune System." (NSPW 1997)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/nspw-2007-biopanel.pdf Somayaji, "Panel: The Future of Biologically-Inspired Security: Is There Anything Left to Learn?" (NSPW 2008)] ==Discussion Questions== * How does evolution relate to biologically-inspired security? * How does trust relate to biologically-inspired sec..."
20 March 2025
- 17:4017:40, 20 March 2025 diff hist +2,371 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 19 →Notes current
- 15:3515:35, 20 March 2025 diff hist +534 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 19 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/findlay-ccsw2020.pdf Findlay, "bpfbox: Simple Precise Process Confinement with eBPF." (CCSW 2020)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/findlay-bpfcontain2021.pdf Findlay, "Bpfcontain: Fixing the soft underbelly of container security." (arXiv 2021)] ==Discussion Questions== * Is the complexity of Linux security mechanisms due more to functional requirements or evolutionary processes? * What is..."
18 March 2025
- 18:3618:36, 18 March 2025 diff hist +2,615 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 18 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/dabbour-nspw2020.pdf Dabbour, "Towards In-Band Non-Cryptographic Authentication." (NSPW 2020)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/bfoster-gecco-2010.pdf Foster, "Object-Level Recombination of Commodity Applications." (GECCO 2010)] ==Notes== <pre> Lecture 18 ---------- G1 - can be more complex to detect imposters in practice because to do so because 1) you won't consider it a possibility, and..." current
13 March 2025
- 18:4518:45, 13 March 2025 diff hist +3,063 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 17 →Notes current
- 14:5814:58, 13 March 2025 diff hist +36 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 17 →Discussion Questions
- 14:5714:57, 13 March 2025 diff hist +425 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 17 →Discussion Questions
- 14:2514:25, 13 March 2025 diff hist +370 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 17 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/amatrawy-acns-05.pdf Matrawy, "Mitigating Network Denial-of-Service Through Diversity-Based Traffic Management." (ACNS 2005)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/inoue-lisa2007.pdf Inoue, "NetADHICT: A Tool for Understanding Network Traffic." (LISA 2007)] ==Discussion Questions== ==Notes=="
11 March 2025
- 18:2018:20, 11 March 2025 diff hist +3,169 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 16 →Notes current
- 15:3115:31, 11 March 2025 diff hist +995 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 16 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/yli-acsac-05.pdf Li, "Securing Email Archives through User Modeling." (ACSAC 2005)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/li-catx2013.pdf Li, "Fine-grained Access Control using Email Social Networks." (CATX 2013)] ==Discussion Questions== Feel free to only address a subset or none of the following questions in your discussion! * What does it take to define "normal"? In what contexts is it easi..."
6 March 2025
- 19:2119:21, 6 March 2025 diff hist +2,413 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 15 No edit summary current
- 16:2316:23, 6 March 2025 diff hist +753 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 15 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/obada-usec2017.pdf Obada-Obieh, "“Don’t Break My Heart!”: User Security Strategies for Online Dating." (USEC 2017)] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/obada-nspw2017.pdf Obada-Obieh, "Can I believe you?: Establishing Trust in Computer Mediated Introductions." (NSPW 2017)] ==Discussion Questions== * How different is dating from other introduction problems today? * How central is reputat..."
4 March 2025
- 18:4818:48, 4 March 2025 diff hist +2,090 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 14 →Notes current
- 16:3216:32, 4 March 2025 diff hist +572 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 14 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/somayaji-nspw2013.pdf Somayaji, "Towards Narrative Authentication: or, against boring authentication." (NSPW 2013)] ==Discussion Questions== * How quickly can you verify that another person knows the same story that you do? Can someone who doesn't know the story fool you easily? * Are there stories that are known to friends and family but that are not written down anywhere? * Could any social media or fina..."
1 March 2025
- 19:3919:39, 1 March 2025 diff hist −6 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes) current
- 19:3819:38, 1 March 2025 diff hist +592 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
- 19:2019:20, 1 March 2025 diff hist +318 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
- 19:1519:15, 1 March 2025 diff hist +490 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
- 19:1219:12, 1 March 2025 diff hist +20 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
- 19:1119:11, 1 March 2025 diff hist +460 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
27 February 2025
- 21:5621:56, 27 February 2025 diff hist +1,972 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 13 →Notes current
- 15:2815:28, 27 February 2025 diff hist +694 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 13 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/somayaji-cset2009.pdf Somayaji, "Evaluating Security Products with Clinical Trials." (CSET 2009)] ==Discussion Questions== * What is the relationship between trust in medical interventions and clinical trials versus lab experiments? * What is the relationship between trust in security interventions and lab experiments currently? * For a security trial to be valid, would the product being tested be allowed..."
25 February 2025
- 18:0618:06, 25 February 2025 diff hist +1,379 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 12 →Class Notes current
- 15:2915:29, 25 February 2025 diff hist +6 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 12 →Discussion Questions
- 15:2915:29, 25 February 2025 diff hist +747 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 12 Created page with "==Readings== * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/oda-asia-08.pdf Oda, "Content Provider Conflict on the Modern Web." (ASIA 2008)] ==Discussion Questions== While these are questions to consider, please focus your discussion on what your group finds interesting related to the paper. * How do modern security technologies like [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS CORS], [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP CSP], and [htt..."
- 15:2015:20, 25 February 2025 diff hist +187 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 11 No edit summary current
- 15:2015:20, 25 February 2025 diff hist −180 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 11, 2025
23 February 2025
- 03:5103:51, 23 February 2025 diff hist +129 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →March 27, 2025
- 03:3703:37, 23 February 2025 diff hist +173 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →March 4, 2025
- 03:2603:26, 23 February 2025 diff hist +29 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →March 4, 2025
- 03:1403:14, 23 February 2025 diff hist +970 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
17 February 2025
- 20:0120:01, 17 February 2025 diff hist +109 Fundamentals of Web Applications (Fall 2024) →Lectures and Exams current
12 February 2025
- 17:2017:20, 12 February 2025 diff hist +2,990 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 11 No edit summary
6 February 2025
- 18:0018:00, 6 February 2025 diff hist +327 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 10 No edit summary current
- 18:0018:00, 6 February 2025 diff hist +1,305 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 10 →Discussion Questions
- 17:5817:58, 6 February 2025 diff hist +645 EvoSec 2025W Lecture 9 No edit summary current
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- 17:5817:58, 6 February 2025 diff hist +632 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 11 Created page with "<pre> Lecture 9 --------- What is entropy? (G1) - least diverse -> least entropy So maybe increasing entropy (disorder) would increase security? - multiple kinds of software, hosts, etc But that seems chaotic and thus insecure? Entropy on a specific graph - hosts can have some number of vulns - edges represent the vulns a host has - cannot remove all edges by assumption - hosts always have some - increase entropy -> more disorder in edges Adding new kinds of s..."
4 February 2025
- 16:3616:36, 4 February 2025 diff hist +290 N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 10 Created page with "==Discussion Questions== * What is the basic model behind both of these systems? Hint: focus on the figures! * What aspect(s) of security are these models capturing? What are they missing? Today you'll be teaching the class, i.e., I'll be asking questions as if I don't understand things."
31 January 2025
- 03:2903:29, 31 January 2025 diff hist +197 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 11, 2025
- 03:2603:26, 31 January 2025 diff hist +273 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 11, 2025
- 03:1103:11, 31 January 2025 diff hist +157 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
- 01:3801:38, 31 January 2025 diff hist +11 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 6, 2025
- 01:3701:37, 31 January 2025 diff hist +11 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 4, 2025
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- 01:3701:37, 31 January 2025 diff hist +18 Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 →February 4, 2025
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