Operating Systems and Security

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Topics

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 (in German only)

Introduction:
Threads
Quantitative Methods
Deadlocks
Memory
Privacy & Data Security:
Security Mechanisms
File Systems
- Introduction
- Robust File Systems
Distributed Systems
- Client/Server Architectures
- Distributed File Systems
Fault Tolerance
Hardware and Device Drivers

Exercises

Tasks (in German only)

Exam Preparation (in German only)

The numbering at the end of each question designates the year and month of the original use of the question in an exam.

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