Current Topics in Information Security

251-0409-00 (2S)
Fall Semester 2008
D. Basin, S. Capkun, U. Maurer, B. Plattner

Announcements

• Course evaluation on Dec. 1st. Please give feedback.
• On Dec. 8th, there will be 3 instead of 2 presentations. Please reserve an additional 45 minutes. Instead, there will be no seminar on the following week (Dec. 15th).

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 (Wolf / Cremers)
• 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

4 ECTS credits

Lectures

Time: Mondays, 14:15-16:00 (starting 22 September 2008)
Place: IFW A34

Exam

Graded semester performance

Schedule (tentative)

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