PA168 ­ Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Mon 3:00-3:55pm & Tue 1:00-1:55pm (B415)
Typical seminar structure
* 1-2 presentations for the start
* Discussion related to above
* News/developments update
­ Recent news
* Crypto-Gram (B. Schneier), comp.risk,
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
* www.buslab.cz,
­ http://swordfish.buslab.org/
­ New results/achievements (no attack stats!)
­ Own insight / analysis / view
Your presentations
* O (Own work)
­ On the topic of your current research / interest
­ Ideally as a training for your needs
* Presentation for a conference/workshop, thesis, etc.
* R (Reading)
­ Presentation of a recent paper
* Papers proposed during the term
* Detailed review of the paper with discussion
* N (News)
­ Presentation of news from the last week (or so)
Marking & Language
* The course primary language is English!!!
­ In Czech only when the ultimate target for
your presentation requires this
* M.Sc. thesis presentation
* Czech conference presentation
* Mark comprises: O & R presentations 40%
each, N presentation 20%
­ P for 75% or more
* Other activities (conference report, etc.)
can yield up to 10% bonus
All presentations
* Well structured
­ Slides (projector care ­ Honza & Marek)
­ Agreed length respected (practice beforehand!)
* Time allowance is 30-40 minutes for O, R
­ 15-25 minutes for N 
* Book your dates with me by March 2,
noon!!!
"O" Talk Dates
* Mar 9 ­ Petr Svenda
* Mar 16 ­ none, two R talks
* Mar 23 ­ Tomáš Homola
* Mar 30 ­ Andriy Stetsko
* Apr 6 ­ Jaromir Dobias
* Apr 13 ­ Easter
* Apr 20 ­ Martin Drašar
* Apr 27 ­ Lumir Honus
* May 4 ­ Roman Zilka
­Martin Henzl
* May 11 ­ Lukáš Folkman
­Dušan Halabica
(R)eadings ­ choice for this term...
* Any paper from the 2008 (15th) ACM Conference
on Computer and Communications Security
­ October 27-31, 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
­ All papers available in the ACM Digital Library
* Link in the IS
"R" Talk Dates
* Mar 9 ­ Tomáš Homola ­ Constructions of truly practical...
* Mar 16 ­ Roman Zilka ­ Rootkit-Resistant Disks
­ Martin Henzl ­ ???
* Mar 23 ­ Martin Drašar ­ Information leaks in structured...
* Mar 30 ­ Lumir Honus ­ RFIDs and secret handshakes...
* Apr 6 ­ Dusan Halabica ­ A Low-cost Attack on M. CAPTCHA
* Apr 13 ­ Easter
* Apr 20 ­ Jaromir Dobias ­ OMash: Enabling Secure Web...
* Apr 27 ­ Lukáš Folkman ­ Identity-based encryption...
* May 4 ­ none, two O talks
* May 11 ­ none, two O talks
"N" Talk Dates
* Mar 9 ­ Dusan Halabica
* Mar 16 *
Mar 23 ­ Lukáš Folkman
* Mar 30 ­ Roman Zilka
* Apr 6 ­ Tomáš Homola
* Apr 13 ­ Easter
* Apr 20 ­ Lumir Honus
* Apr 27 ­ Vasek Lorenc
* May 4 ­ Martin Drašar
* May 11 ­ Martin Henzl