Computer Security

By David Wagner, Nicholas Weaver, Peyrin Kao, Fuzail Shakir, Andrew Law, and Nicholas Ngai

Additional contributions by Noura Alomar, Sheqi Zhang, and Shomil Jain

This is the textbook for CS 161: Computer Security at UC Berkeley. It provides a brief survey over common topics in computer security including memory safety, cryptography, web security, and network security.

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