Distributed Systems and Security: Lectures

Week 30: Lecture 1: Introduction and RMI Basics. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapters 1 and 5; Farley et al., chapter 3]; Lecture 2: Controlling object exports and the Security Manager. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 5; Farley et al., chapter 3]
Week 31: Lecture 3: Object Serialization, callbacks and remote object activation. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Farley et al., chapter 3]; Lecture 4: Processes and Threads, Part I. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 6]
Week 32: Lecture 5: Processes and Threads, Part II. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 6]; Lecture 6: Programming with Sockets. Slides, pdf
Week 33: Lecture 7: Transactions I, Understanding the Transaction Management Problem. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 13]; Lecture 8: Transactions II, Concurrency Control. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Farley et al., chapter 2]
Week 34: Lecture 9: Transactions III, Improving Concurrency. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 13]; Lecture 10: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 13]
Week 35: Lecture 11: Distributed Transactions I. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 14]; Lecture 12: Distributed Transactions II. Slides, pdf; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 14]
Week 36: Lecture 13: Threat analysis Slides; [Reading: Anderson, chapters 1,2]; Lecture 14: Cryptology Slides; [Reading (background for interest): Simon Singh, "The Codebook"]
Week 37: Lecture 15: Network security (part I): Slides; Lecture 16: Network security (part II): Slides
Week 41: Lecture 17: Keys, Signatures and Certificates: Slides; Lecture 18: Security: Keys, Signatures and Certificates: Slides
Week 42: Lecture 19: Access Control: Slides; Lecture 20: Security: Authentication: Slides
Week 43: Lecture 21: Secure Programming Slides; Lecture 22: Distributed Deadlocks Slides; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 14 ]
Week 44: Lecture 23: Reliability and Availability. Slides; [Reading: Coulouris et al., chapter 15 ]; Lecture 24: Revision. Slides