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Re-Exam Rules and Regulations

Written on 12.10.20 by Jonas Bushart

If you are registered for the re-exam, please note that it is absolutely necessary for you to bring your own protection mask with you. Students who have a doctor’s certificate that they cannot wear protection masks have to bring their own face shields and wear these instead of a mask.

The exam will… Read more

If you are registered for the re-exam, please note that it is absolutely necessary for you to bring your own protection mask with you. Students who have a doctor’s certificate that they cannot wear protection masks have to bring their own face shields and wear these instead of a mask.

The exam will take part in the GHH lecture hall on Friday the 16th from 10:00 sharp to 12:00. Please, ensure that you are at the lecture hall at least 15 minutes before the start of the exam, such that seating can take place.
Like for the main exam, you are allowed to bring one handwritten A4 cheat sheet and an English/German dictionary.

Re-Exam

Written on 05.10.20 by Jonas Bushart

Dear Students,

the re-exam will be held on Friday the October 16th in the GHH lecture hall. If you want to take part you need to be registered for the re-exam in the LSF. Please, ensure that you are registered by Friday this week (October 9th).

Main Exam Inspection Regulations

Written on 06.08.20 by Jonas Bushart

Dear Students,

the main exam inspection will take place on the 10th of August between 14:00 and 16:00 in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall.

In order to ensure an orderly and safe exam inspection the following rules must be adhered to:

  • It is absolutely necessary to bring a protective face mask… Read more

Dear Students,

the main exam inspection will take place on the 10th of August between 14:00 and 16:00 in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall.

In order to ensure an orderly and safe exam inspection the following rules must be adhered to:

  • It is absolutely necessary to bring a protective face mask with you. Students who have a doctor’s certificate that they cannot wear protection masks have to bring their own face shields and wear these instead of a mask.
  • You must wear the protective mask when entering or leaving the room as well as when talking to each other, e.g., for questions.
  • We assigned time slots for each student based on the first letter of the last name:
    • A-L from 14:00 to 15:00
    • M-Z from 15:00 to 16:00

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam inspection. Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days?

Do you have any of the following symptoms?

  • Cough / Husten
  • Sore throat / Halsschmerzen
  • Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen
  • Diarrhea /Durchfall
  • Fever /Fieber
  • Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen
  • Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust
  • Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust”

Main Exam Inspection

Written on 20.07.20 by Jonas Bushart

The inspection of the main exam will be held on the 10th of August in the GHH lecture hall from 14:00 to 16:00.

Please be patient with the exam results. We will publish them before the exam inspection, but it will likely take 2.5 weeks until we can publish the results.

Exam Regulations and Quiz Questions in CMS

Written on 13.07.20 by Christian Rossow

FYI: We have uploaded the exam regulations and quiz questions (unfortunately not all of them) to CMS.

Friendly reminder: Mandatory exam registration closes today. Register ASAP if you may and want to participate in the main exam on July 20.

Last Tutorials

Written on 13.07.20 by Jonas Bushart

Dear Students,

today we have the last two Tutorials. Use them to ask about the exercise sheet and for exam preparation.

Exam Registration

Written on 10.07.20 by Christian Rossow

This is a gentle reminder to register for the upcoming CySec II exam by Monday, July 13. Timely registration is mandatory in order to participate in the exam. We cannot allow registrations past this deadline, as per guideline by the study dean. You are allowed to sign up for the exam(s) if you have… Read more

This is a gentle reminder to register for the upcoming CySec II exam by Monday, July 13. Timely registration is mandatory in order to participate in the exam. We cannot allow registrations past this deadline, as per guideline by the study dean. You are allowed to sign up for the exam(s) if you have achieved 92.5+ points in the exercise sheets. If you are below this threshold, you cannot participate in either exam.

Lecture today (Wed, June 10) at 2pm

Written on 10.06.20 by Christian Rossow

This is a gentle reminder that this week's CySec II live lecture (on buffer overflows & defenses) will be today at 2pm, as tomorrow is a holiday.

gdb fix in Prog2 VM

Written on 10.06.20 by Christian Rossow

Unfortunately, the relatively new gdb version in the Prog2 VM crashes when you enable the assembly view. This problem can be solved by downgrading gdb to an older version. We've released a small script that you can readily apply in the Prog2 VM:

https://pastebin.com/GNwd7Zb8
 

Tutorials next week on Wed, Jun 3 instead of Mon, Jun 1

Written on 27.05.20 by Christian Rossow

Next week Monday is a holiday, which is why tutorials will happen on Wednesday at 2pm and 4pm. As usual, you can join any of these two tutorials (or both).

Zoom information: https://zoom.us/j/94208039223?pwd=VVRhZ2YrVHpzTWIxZTQyOUl6YUpPQT09 (meeting ID 942 0803 9223, password 0s@T8G)

Teams for Exercise Submissions

Written on 14.05.20 by Jonas Bushart

Dear students,

we encourage forming groups for the exercise sheets. As such, we extended the deadline for group building for the second exercise sheet until Monday at midnight (18. May 2020, 23:59). Please, use this time to search for a team member if you have none so far. You can use the Askbot or… Read more

Dear students,

we encourage forming groups for the exercise sheets. As such, we extended the deadline for group building for the second exercise sheet until Monday at midnight (18. May 2020, 23:59). Please, use this time to search for a team member if you have none so far. You can use the Askbot or the tutorial sessions on Monday to do so.

For technical reasons, we have to postpone the exercise submission to Tuesday. Thus, you can hand in the exercise sheet from Tuesday until Thursday 13:59. This should not stop you from working on the sheet earlier.

Starting with the third exercise sheet, the deadlines will be as before, with the group building starting on Mondays and submission opening on Saturdays.

Zoom Links for Tutorials and Live Lecture

Written on 11.05.20 by Jonas Bushart

From now on you can find the Zoom links for the Tutorials and Live Lectures in the Materials Section.

You can join either Tutorial slot. The tutorials start today and take place from 12:00-14:00 and 16:00-18:00. You can also change the tutorial every week.

We provide a Tutorial Sheet with… Read more

From now on you can find the Zoom links for the Tutorials and Live Lectures in the Materials Section.

You can join either Tutorial slot. The tutorials start today and take place from 12:00-14:00 and 16:00-18:00. You can also change the tutorial every week.

We provide a Tutorial Sheet with further (ungraded) exercises which will be covered during the Tutorials. Please, download it before the tutorials start. You can find it in the Materials Section, too.

CySec II -- Getting Started (READ THIS)

Written on 29.04.20 (last change on 07.05.20) by Christian Rossow

We have several news about the CySec II lecture. Please read them carefully.

Lecture Videos

We have just released the slides, videos and book materials of the first three topics (actually, two, plus some introductory notes). You can find them on YouTube. Further topics will follow as the lecture… Read more

We have several news about the CySec II lecture. Please read them carefully.

Lecture Videos

We have just released the slides, videos and book materials of the first three topics (actually, two, plus some introductory notes). You can find them on YouTube. Further topics will follow as the lecture progresses, latest one week before the lecture.

Note that we're still in the learning phase to perfectionate the lecture videos. There are known minor issues in the first 2-3 videos that will be fixed in upcoming videos (e.g., clearer handwriting, 1080p quality, no overlap between the multiple inputs). If you have further suggestions for improvement, please send us an email or use the CMS feedback form. We will try to incorporate your feedback to the extent possible. Finally, note that we will list errata in the video descriptions, so please pay attention to them.

Live Lectures

On May 7 at 2pm, we will start our weekly live lectures using Zoom. Live lectures will feature a Q&A session, deepen some of the contents with additional slides, and a live online quizz. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly advised. Find the Zoom link, meeting ID and password on the CMS "Materials" page. You can also dial in via phone (details here). To spare resources, we will disable videos of all participants, and also initially mute everyone. If you would like to ask a question, please use the "raise hand" feature in Zoom. Please test your hardware setup before the lecture not to miss any content on the first day. Experience has shown that technical problems may arise that require some debugging.

In the third lecture week, we have to "evade" a holiday (May 21, Corpus Christi) and move our lecture to May 20, Wed, 2pm. Please understand that we cannot just drop this lecture, as we already have lost quite a few weeks due to the delayed semester start.

Reexam date

We moved the re-exam to Fri Oct 16, 10am, to comply to the exam period recommendations by the CS department.

Exercises

The first exercise sheet will be available right after the first lecture on May 7.

You'll be allowed, and actually highly encouraged (!!!), to work on the exercises in groups of two students. In this term, without any doubt, it will be harder to find group partners given the lack of physical presence. To foster the process of forming groups, we offer the help in terms of an Askbot thread where you can leave your contact details in case you're still looking for a team partner (which basically should be the vast majority of you). Don't be afraid of forming groups already now. Groups can be rearranged with every exercise sheet, so you will not enter a long-term commitment should you become unhappy about your partner. We will treat individual and groups submissions fully equally, thus working in a group will lower your effort.

Once you've formed a group, use the CMS group feature to indicate your team members and submit your exercise solutions. As we'd like to allow group changes over time, please note that you have to re-specify your team mate in CMS for every submission even if it did not change from the previous one.

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