Current Topics in Information Security (HS 2007)

Welcome to the web page of the seminar Current Topics in Information Security (link to VVZ).

Organizers

Prof. David Basin, Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Ueli Maurer, and Prof. Bernhard Plattner.

Assistants

Dr. Christoph Sprenger, Ghassan Karame, Dominik Raub, and Mario Strasser.

Time and location

Mondays, 14:15-16:00, IFW A34

News

• Sep 6: web site set up
  

Overview

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.

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

Selected Topics

• security protocols
• access control: authorization and enforcement
• side-channel attacks
• network security
• cryptography: human-centric protocols
• cryptography: hash functions
• key agreement protocols
• system security

Each student picks an article from the reading list on Oct 1. At the same time a date for the presentation will be scheduled. Students are expected to show their slides to the responsible supervisor one week before the presentation.

Prerequisites

at least one of

• Information Security (Basin/Maurer)
• Kryptographische Protokolle (Hirt/Maurer)
• Informationssicherheit und Kryptographie (Maurer)
• Network Security (Plattner)
• System Security (Capkun/Caronni/Weiler)

Schedule (to be completed)

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