ComputerSecurity

26th March 2025

CSE 5400 - Course focuses on Cryptography, Buffer Overflow, Memory Security, etc

Homeworks:

HW1: OpenSSL Encryption, Decryption, Hashing, and digital signatures.

HW2: Using Crypto libraries to implement hash functions and Salting.

• md5, sha256, sha512
• Guessing the passwords using brute force methods.
• Calculating the time it takes to crack passwords using different hash functions.

HW3: Play with File Permissions and SetUID

Projects

Project 1: MD5 Collision Attack

Project 2: Buffer Overflow Attack

Project 3: Dirty COW Attack

Project 4: Implementing the Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0)