| Date |
Day |
Title |
Author |
Reference |
Presenting Team |
Handouts |
| 5-Sept. |
Fri. |
Information Security
Technology? ... Don't Rely on It: A Case Study in Social Engineering |
Ira Winkler
Brian Dealy |
Fifth USENIX UNIX Security Symposium, June 1995 |
Bressoud |
|
5-Sept.
optional |
Fri. |
Risk Management |
James W. Meritt |
Early paper from Wang computer |
Bressoud |
|
| 8-Sept. |
Mon. |
Why Cryptography is Harder
Than It Looks |
Bruce Schneier |
www.counterpane.com/
whycrypto.html |
Bressoud |
|
| 12-Sept. |
Fri. |
Exploring Steganography: Seeing
the Unseen |
Neil F. Johnson
Sushil Jajodia |
IEEE Computer, 1998 |
Adam, Adam, and Stoyan |
Questions
Summary |
| 15-Sept. |
Mon. |
Minimal Key Lengths
for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security |
Matt Blaze et al. |
Unpublished report |
Asaf and Steve |
Questions
Summary |
| 19-Sept. |
Fri. |
Description of a New,
Variable-Length Key, 64-Bit Block Cipher (Blowfish) |
Bruce Schneier |
Fast Software Encryption, Cambridge Security Workshop
Proceedings (1994) |
Daniel and Derek |
Questions
Summary |
| 26-Sept. |
Fri. |
A Method for Obtaining Digital
Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems |
R. L. Rivest,
A Shamir, and
L Adleman |
Communications of the ACM, 1978. |
Nalini and Mike |
Questions
Summary
Presentation |
| 1-Oct. |
Wed. |
Tiger: A Fast New Hash Algorithm |
Ross Anderson
Eli Biham |
|
Blaine and Evan |
Questions
Summary |
| 8-Oct. |
Wed. |
Kerberos: An Authentication
Service for Open Network Systems |
Steiner, Neuman, and Schiller |
Proceedings of the USENIX conference, February, 1988. |
Bressoud |
Play Dialog |
| 22-Oct. |
Wed. |
IP Security |
Madalina Baltatu and Antonio Lioy |
NATO Workshop on Advanced Security Technology in Networking |
Adam, Adam, and Stoyan |
Questions
Summary |
| 29-Oct. |
Wed. |
Decentralized User Authentication in a
Global File System |
Michael Kaminsky, George
Savvides, David Mazieres, M. Frans Kaashoek |
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP'03), October 19-22, 2003 |
Asaf and Steve |
Questions
Summary |
| 3-Nov. |
Mon. |
There be Dragons: A
description of Cracker Assaults vs. the Ramparts of ATT.COM |
Steven M. Bellovin |
Proceedings of the Third Usenix UNIX
Security Sympisum |
Daniel and Derek |
Questions
Summary |
| 10-Nov. |
Mon. |
Backtracking Intrusions |
Samuel T. King and Peter M. Chen |
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP'03), October 19-22, 2003 |
Nalini and Mike |
|
| 17-Nov. |
Mon. |
Code Red for the Web |
Carolyn Meinel |
Scientific American, October 2001 |
Blaine and Evan |
|
| 19-Nov. |
Wed. |
Firewalls Fend off Invasion from the Net |
Lodin and Schuba |
IEEE Spectrum, February 1998 |
Adam, Adam, and Stoyan |
|
