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Seminar Computer Security

Responsible

Prof. Dr. Werner Schindler

Lecture

Michael Nüsken
Daniel Loebenberger

Time & Place

Monday, 16:10h - 17:40h (single sessions),
16:05h - 19:10h (double sessions), b-it 2.1.
Start (Organizational):
16.10.2006, 17:00h, b-it 2.1.

Contents

This seminar discusses various topics from applied and theoretical computer security. Possible areas cover security on the internet, electronic elections, encryption standards, stream ciphers, and hash functions.

Schedule

• October 30, 2006, 16:00: Jia Zhu , The SSH protocol.
  • Wikipedia, Secure Shell .
  • Dan Barrett, Richard Silverman, & Robert Byrnes: SSH: The Secure Shell The Definitive Guide, Chapter Protocols .
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• November 6, 2006, 16:00: Pei Guo , How to bypass a firewall.
  • Wikipedia, Understanding Firewalls .
  • Wikipedia, Firewall (networking) .
  • Wikipedia, Stateful firewall .
  • Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security", Chapter 20, ISBN 0-13-111-502-2.
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint). Seminar paper (PDF).
• November 13, 2006, 16:00: Adil Amjad , About Malware.
  • Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security", Chapter 19, ISBN 0-13-111-502-2.
  • Bruce Schneier (2006), Targeted Trojan Horses Are the Future of Malware .
  
  Presentation (??).
• November 20, 2006, 16:00: Hannes Korte , DoS/DDoS attacks and botnets.
  • Steve Gibson (2002), The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks Against GRC.COM .
  
  Presentation (PDF).
• November 20, 2006, 17:30: Muthiyalu Jothir Navaneetha Krishnan , Email spam filtering.
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• November 27, 2006, 16:00: Shirley Ong , Intrusion Detection.
  • Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security", Chapter 18, ISBN 0-13-111-502-2.
  • SNORT .
  
  Presentation (??).
• November 27, 2006, 17:30: Tillmann Werner , Rootkits.
  • Hoglund, Greg & Butler, James (2005). Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0321294319.
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• December 4, 2006, 16:00: Michael May , Security aspects of online banking.
  Presentation (??).
• December 4, 2006, 17:30: Bastian Sopora , Security flaws of the WEP protocol.
  • Fluhrer, Mantin, Shamir, "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4" .
  • Stubblefield, Ioannidis, Rubin, "Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP" .
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• December 11, 2006: CANCELLED: Erdinc Sevim , Security of Bluetooth.
  • Morrow, "Bluetooth: Operation and Use", Chapter 9, ISBN 0-07-138779-X.
• December 11, 2006, 16:00: Anuradha Jambunathan , Sneaking RFIDs.
  • RFID .
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• December 18, 2006, 16:00: Christmas Session
  • Lebkuchen .
• January 15, 2007, 16:00: Michael Dwucet , DES = Destructed Encryption Standard?
  • NIST, Cryptographic Toolkit , The Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-2).
  • Stinson, "Cryptography. Theory and Practice", Chapter 3.1-3.5, ISBN 1-58488-206-9.
  • Wikipedia, Differential cryptanalysis .
  
  Presentation (??).
• January 15, 2007, 17:30: Hema Mahato , The destruction of SHA-1.
  • Wang, Yu, Yin (2005), "Efficient Collision Search Attacks on SHA-0" .
  • Wang, Yu, Yin (2005), "Finding Collisions in the Full SHA-1" .
  • Bruce Schneier (2005 February), Cryptanalysis of SHA-1 .
  • Bruce Schneier (2005 August), New Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1 .
  
  Presentation (??).
• January 22, 2007, 16:00: Sukesh Jain , Cache-attacks on AES.
  • NIST, Cryptographic Toolkit , The Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS-197).
  • Stinson, "Cryptography. Theory and Practice", Chapter 3.6-3.8, ISBN 1-58488-206-9.
  • Bernstein (2005), "Cache-timing attacks on AES" .
  
  Presentation (PowerPoint).
• January 29, 2007, 16:00: Sufian Hamed , Identity based cryptography.
  • Baek, Newmarch, Safavi-Naini, Susilo, "A Survey of Identity-Based Cryptography" ( PDF ).
  • Boneh, Katz, "Improved Efficiency for CCA-Secure Cryptosystems Built Using Identity-Based Encryption" .
  • Canetti, Halevi, Katz, "Chosen-Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption" .
  
  Presentation (??).
• January 29, 2007, 17:30: Shakeeb Ahmed , Program obfuscation.
  • Barak, Goldreich, Impagliazzo, Rudich, Sahai, Vadhan, Yang, "On the (Im)Possibility of Obfuscating Programs" .
  • Lynn, Prabhakaran, Sahai, "Positive Results and Techniques for Obfuscation" .
  
  Presentation (??).