Information Security Assignments

Assignments for Introduction to Information Security (is-lecture). Each assignment is a folder under src/ and builds to its own PDF.

Assignment	Lecture it follows	What the student does
crypto-toolbox	3 — Cryptography	encrypts a file, tampers with it, and tells apart confidentiality, integrity and authenticity by doing them
web-hardening	6 — Web Security	finds and closes real weaknesses in a small web application

Both are seed material: written from the lecture topics to give the repository a starting point, not handed out to a class yet. Read one before you set it — in particular the deadline, which no assignment sets.

Reading the assignments

Built PDFs for the current main are attached to the latest release — no TeX toolchain needed.

How to build?

Built with TeX Live (XeLaTeX, driven by latexmk) and Pygments, which minted shells out to for code listings. TeX Live 2023 or newer is required.

Platform	Install
macOS	brew install --cask mactex-no-gui (or MacTeX)
Debian/Ubuntu	apt install texlive-full latexmk python3-pygments
Arch	pacman -S texlive texlive-langarabic texlive-latexextra python-pygments
Any	install-tl with scheme-full

make            # build every assignment into build/
make list       # list the assignments
make clean      # remove build artefacts

Or, without installing a TeX distribution — this is also what CI runs:

docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/work -w /work texlive/texlive:latest make

Writing an assignment

See CONTRIBUTING.md. The short version — create src/<name>/main.tex:

\documentclass{../is-assignment}

\عنوان{یک عنوان خوب}
\ترم{پاییز ۱۴۰۵}
\مهلت{۳۰ آبان ۱۴۰۵}

\begin{document}

\عنوان‌ساز

\فهرست‌مطالب

\قسمت{...}

متن تمرین ...

\نمره{۴}

\قوانین

\پایان‌ساز

\end{document}

\قوانین prints the course rules — where to hand in, the late policy, what counts as your own work, what is allowed with AI tools, and what grading looks at. The wording lives in is-assignment.cls, so it cannot drift between assignments.

The shared look

The palette, fonts, sectioning, listings, callout boxes and marks come from latex-templates, pulled in under latex/ as a git subtree; is-assignment.cls adds only the cover page, the course rules and this course's violet accent. To pick up a later version:

git subtree pull --prefix latex \
  git@github.com:1995parham-teaching/latex-templates.git main --squash

A word on the exercises

The web assignment asks students to attack something. Every one of them says, in the handout, that the target is their own machine. Keep it that way: an assignment that sends a class looking for a live target is a different kind of document, and not one this course hands out.

Related

• is-lecture — the course itself
• is-exam — its midterm and final
• ie-assignments — the same machinery for Internet Engineering