Lecture Week 14: Distributed Systems and Security

Course Meetup: Tuesday, Apr. 27

The next course meetup at on Tuesday, Apr. 27 at 2:00pm on Zoom and will be a short Q&A-only meetup. We will use the same Zoom link for all course meetups (you can find it in Compass 2g as the announcement for this course).

Lecture Topics and Videos

The topics come from both lecture videos and reading from the course textbook:

1. Lecture Video - Distributed File Systems
2. Lecture Video - Security, Principles
3. Lecture Video - Security, Encryption
4. Meetup Recording from Tuesday's Meetup - Zoom Recording

Additionally, here’s a PDF of all the lecture slides presented in the videos this week.

Assignments

MPs

• MP4 is on-going, due on May 3.

Reading Selection from Systems Research (Required for 4CR only)

If you are enrolled in the 4CR version of this course, you will review two papers each week and choose one to summarize in depth. See the course syllabus for details. Note: You may need to be on the campus VPN to get access to some of the papers.

1. “Perspectives on protection and security” by Butler Lampson; presented at SOSP ‘15: Proceedings of the 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

2. “Can we make operating systems reliable and secure?” by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Jorrit N. Herder, and Herbert Bos; published in IEEE Computer, May 2006.

Your summary is due on Compass 2g by 11:59pm on Monday, May 3.