Current Topics in Information Security

251-0409-00 S
Fall Semester 2009
D. Basin, S. Capkun, U. Maurer, B. Plattner

Announcements

• The course will start one week later than usual. The first lecture is on September 28.
• There is no lecture on October 5 to give the first students time to prepare their presentations.

Course Description

The seminar covers various topics in information security: security protocols (models, specification & verification), trust management, access control, non-interference, side-channel attacks, identity-based cryptography, host-based attack detection, anomaly detection in backbone networks, key-management for sensor networks.

Prerequisites

at least one of

• Information Security (Maurer / Basin)
• Kryptographische Protokolle (Hirt)
• System Security (Capkun/Caronni/Weiler)

Objectives

The main goals of the seminar are the independent study of scientific literature and assessment of its contributions as well as learning and practicing presentation techniques.

Content

The seminar covers various topics in information security, including network security, cryptography and security protocols. The participants are expected to read a scientific paper and present it in a 35-40 min talk. At the beginning of the semester a short introduction to presentation techniques will be given.

Topics covered include

• Security protocols: models, specification & verification
• Trust management, access control and non-interference
• Side-channel attacks
• Identity-based cryptography
• Host-based attack detection
• Anomaly detection in backbone networks
• Key-management for sensor networks

Literature

The reading list will be published on the course web site.

Grading

2 ECTS credits

Lectures

Time: Mondays, 14:15-16:00 (starting 28 September 2009)
Place: IFW A34

Exam

Graded semester performance

Schedule (tentative)

(see the list of papers for details on each topic)