Computer Security
Informal questionnaire
  October 2004

To help me respond to issues raised in the Staff/Student Consultative Committee, students on the module were asked to respond to the questions below. This informal survey was conducted at the beginning of a lecture. In order to promote students' willingness to be open and honest, it was conducted by two M.Eng. students, while Mark Ryan was out of the room.

  1. Comment on the module as a whole
    		0
    		 1
    		 2
    		 3
    		 4
    From this module I am learning
    		 nothing
    		 1
    		 10
    		 9
    		 10
    		 0
    		 a lot
    The module is
    		 too easy
    		 2
    		 2
    		 18
    		 13
    		 1
    		 too difficult
    The lectures are
    		boring
    		 8
    		 13
    		 10
    		 8
    		 0
    		 interesting
    The module is
    		too waffly
    		 9
    		 5
    		 19
    		 4
    		 0
    		 too technical


  2. Please rate each of the topics presented by MDR, according to its appropriateness for inclusion in the module.
    0 = very inappropriate, I already knew the content, or I thought the content boring or irrelevant
    4 = very appropriate; I did not previously know the content, and I think it is fundamental to a course in computer security.


    		 0
    		 1
    		 2
    		 3
    		 4
    Introduction/overview: threats, risk, vulnerabilities and impact 1
    		 1
    		 20
    		 7
    		 3
    Symmetric key encryption 1
    		 0
    		 7
    		 16
    		 1
    Secure one-way hash functions 0
    		 0
    		 6
    		 21
    		 5
    Public key encryption 0
    		 0
    		 5
    		 13
    		 14
    Secure protocols (not yet given)




    Key certificates and PGP (not yet given)




    Trusted Computing and NGSCB (not yet given)