PA168 ­ Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Tue 8:30-30 & Thu 15:00-16:00 (B415)
Typical seminar structure
* 2 presentations for the start
* Discussion related to above
* News/developments update
­ Recent news
* New results/achievements (no attack stats!)
* Crypto-Gram (B. Schneier), comp.risk,
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/
­ 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.
* N (News)
­ Presentation of news from the last week (or so)
* R (Reading)
­ Presentation of a recent paper
* Papers proposed during the term
* Detailed review of the paper with discussion
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 presentation 40%
­ R & N presentation 30% each
­ Resulting P(ass) for 75% or more
* Other activities (conference report, etc.) can yield
up to 10% bonus
All presentations
* Well structured
­ Slides (projector care ­ Pavel Tucek; laptop
care is upon your mutual agreement!)
­ Agreed length respected (practice beforehand!)
* Time allowance is 30-35 minutes for O
­ 20-25 minutes for R and N
* Book your dates with me by Feb 25,
noon!!!
"O" Talk Dates
* Mar 15 ­ Zbynek Ondrak, Jiří Vomáčka
* Mar 22 ­ Shkodran Gerguri
* Mar 29 ­ Andriy Stetsko
* Apr 5 ­ Easter
* Apr 12 ­ Richard Barányi, Tobias Smolka
* Apr 19 ­ Rastislav Rusinko, Pavel Tuček
* Apr 26 ­ Jakub Breier, Juraj Ďaďo
* May 3 ­ Luboš Ptáček
* May 10 ­ Jirka Kur
* May 17 ­ Michal Růžička
"N" Talk Dates
* Mar 15 ­ Jiří Vomáčka
* Mar 22 ­ Richard Barányi
* Mar 29 ­ Jirka Kur
* Apr 5 ­ Easter
* Apr 12 ­ Jakub Breier
* Apr 19 ­ Luboš Ptáček
* Apr 26 ­ Zbynek Ondrak
* May 3 ­ Juraj Ďaďo, bonus talk Tobias Smolka
* May 10 ­ Michal Růžička
* May 17 ­ Rastislav Rusinko
(R)eadings ­ choice for this term...
* Any paper from the Proceedings of the 2009
New security paradigms workshop
­ Oxford, United Kingdom, September 8-11, 2009
­ All papers available in the ACM Digital Library
* Link in the IS
"R" Talk Dates
* Mar 8 ­ Pavel Tuček The sisterhood of the traveling packets
­ Tobias Smolka ­ Fluid information systems
* Mar 15 ­ Jirka Kur ­ So long, and no thanks for the extern...
* Mar 22 ­ Juraj Ďaďo ­ Laissez-faire file sharing: access...
* Mar 29 ­ Richard Barányi ­ Server-Side Detection of Malware
* Apr 5 ­ Easter
* Apr 12 ­ Luboš Ptáček ­ Musipass: authenticating me softly...
* Apr 19 ­ Jakub Breier
* Apr 26 ­ Rastislav Rusinko
* May 3 ­ Michal Růžička ­ Generative usability: security and...
* May 10 ­ Jiří Vomáčka
* May 17 ­ Zbynek Ondrak ­ Securing data through avoidance...