Presentations and Projects

Each student must submit a term project and do at least one presentation.

Presentations

The presentation must be scheduled with the instructor at a time that fits in with the related subject material
The student must review the presentation material no later than the office hours prior to the presentation date
All students will be expected to provide feedback to the presenter for each presentation, using the form provided. This should be modified and emailed to the presenter and to the instuctor within a week.

Presentation Schedule (Subject to Change)

8/24a: Intro
8/24b: Crypto basics
8/26: Crypto basics
8/31a: Crypto theory
8/31b: Modern Symmetric Crypto
9/2: Modern Symmetric Crypto
9/7a: Modern Symmetric Crypto
9/7b: Hashing
9/9: Hashing
9/14a: Asymmetric Crypto
9/14b: Asymmetric Crypto
9/16: Asymmetric Crypto
9/21a: Crypto Protocols
9/21b: Crypto Protocols
9/23: Authentication Protocols and BAN Logic
9/28a: Authentication Protocols and BAN Logic
9/28b: Authentication Protocols/analysis
9/30: Authentication Protocols/analysis
10/5: P K Manna: ZKP
10/7: Work day
10/12a: Secret Sharing, Key Escrow
10/12b: Multisignatures, Blind Signatures
10/14 REVIEW
10/19: EXAM 1
10/21 Keith Hay-Roe: PGP/PKI (MSWord)
10/26a Nemo - PKI
10/26b Nemo - PGP
10/28 Chris Pearson: the Ephemerizer
11/2a Nemo - electronic voting - basics See IEEE Spectrum article on voting , along with its link to India's experience, and section 4.2 of advanced protocols Also see Flaws in existing systems , Prof. Avi Rubin's page on electronic voting, Avi Rubin's article , Prof. Doug Jones' page on optical voting systems, Shekhar's article on Indian voting.
11/2b Bekir Arslan - electronic voting
11/4 Vibha Chhatwal Steganography
11/9a Matthew Ashoff Bit Commitment, Fair Coin Flips, One-Way Accumulators
11/9b Todd Lomaskin Oblivious Transfer, All-or-Nothing Secret Disclosure
11/11 Veterans Day Break
11/16a Piyush Harsh Anonymity and Dining Cryptographers Color version
11/16b Chris Conger Traffic Analysis Prevention
11/18 Jayaraman Prashant Ecash
11/23a Aashish Parikh Auction Protocols
11/23b Raymond Page Specfic Auction Protocols
11/25 Thanksgiving Break
11/30a Lawrence Taub IPSEC/ISAKMP
11/30b Inkwan Yu Multicast Security
12/2 Robert Peterson Wireless Security
12/7 EXAM 2

Projects

Each student or small team will propose and complete a project for this class.

The draft project proposal is 1-2 pages describing the topic of interest, what you propose to do, and the resources you will use. These should include reference books, papers, and URLs in standard reference format.

After review of these, a revised and more detailed proposal is to be submitted. Dates for Project Milestones This will include an outline (if a paper) or an architecture (if software).

Draft projects are then due in mid-November. Each student will review two other projects and provide feedback to the student(s) and the instructor on the projects reviewed. The project team will use this information to improve the project before submitting the final version in early December.

Important Project Dates

Thurs. Sept 16 - Draft project proposals due
Thurs. Sept 30 - Project detailed proposals due
Thurs. Nov 4 - Projects due !!!
Thurs. Nov 18 - Project reviews due !!!
Tues. Dec 2 - Revised projects due

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