The Structure of Secure Systems

Author

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Srini Devadas, Yael Kalai, Nickolai Zeldovich

Charles Alfred Meurer, Still Life with Currency (1895): a trompe-l'oeil painting of a ten-dollar bill, a ring of keys, a padlock, and a pinned note on a wooden board.

Charles Alfred Meurer, Still Life with Currency, 1895.
Image from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Disclaimer

This set of notes is a work in progress. It may have errors and be missing citations. It is certainly incomplete. Please let the staff know of any errors that you find.

Contributors

These notes are based on lectures by the 6.1600 course staff:

  • 2024: Srini Devadas and Yael Kalai
  • 2023: Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Nickolai Zeldovich
  • 2022: Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Yael Kalai, and Nickolai Zeldovich.
  • 2021: Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Srini Devadas, Yael Kalai, and Nickolai Zeldovich.

Ben Kettle, our course TA in 2022, was responsible for transcribing the first set of these lecture notes in Fall 2022.