CS 6760 — Privacy, Security, and Usability

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fallArlington, VAOakland, CASeattle, WASilicon Valley, CAVancouver, CanadaHybridLive CastTraditional

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.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 202348512568%10.0
Summer A 20242175034%16.5
Fall 20242356752%16.0
Spring 20251123040%18.0
Fall 20253358740%17.3

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 15% · T 34% · W 15% · Th 30% · F 23%

Common patterns: T (26% of sections), F (23% of sections), R (22% of sections), MW (8% of sections), TR (8% of sections), M (7% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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