Operating Systems and Security

Content

The lecture introduces the fundamentals of systems architecture. Students will learn the key building blocks and construction principles for local systems first and for distributed systems later on. A primary concern for us is to highlight references to neighboring topics. Examples are discussing the interaction of certain hardware characteristics with system building blocks, the introduction to the basics of cryptographic techniques and the application of mathematical methods to ascertain quantitative properties of systems. We also focus on some principles for constructing fault-tolerant and secure systems already in this basic course. A third concern is to get students acquainted with techniques for low-level machine-oriented programming at the latest in this lecture.

Breakdown of the lecture:

• Introduction
• Key Building Blocks
• UNIX
• Processes and Threads
• Deadlocks
• Security
• Memory
• Quantitative Methods
• Client-Server-Architectures and Process-Communication in Distributed Systems
• Security in Distributed Systems
• File Systems
• Distributed File Systems
• Fault-Tolerance
• Device Drivers

Slides (German only)

• Introduction:
  • Building Blocks
  • UNIX
  • Processes
• Threads
• Quantitative Methods
• Deadlocks
• Memory
• Privacy & Data Security:
  • Introduction
  • Information Security Controls
  • Authentication
  • Cryptography
  • Security Protocols
  • Hardware-based Security
• Security Mechanisms
• File Systems
  • Introduction
  • Robust File Systems
• Distributed Systems
  • Client/Server Architectures
  • Distributed File Systems
• Fault Tolerance
• Hardware and Device Drivers

Exercises

You can enroll into the regular tutorials starting from Friday, 18th of October, afternoon via JExam. In case tutorials get too crowded, the enrollment is binding. Exercises begin in the fourth week of the semester (week starting at the 21st of October).

Die regulären Übungen finden wöchentlich zu folgenden Terminen statt:

Tasks (German only)

• Unix
• Threads
• Deadlocks
  • The Deadlock Empire
• Quantitative Methods
• Memory Management
  • Web-app demonstrating virtual to physical address translation
  • Web-app demonstrating virtual to physical address translation
• Security
• Cryptography
  • Der Dialog der Schwestern
• File Systems