PA168 – Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Mon 15:05-55 & Tue 9:05-55 (B415)
Typical seminar structure
• 2-3 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)
– This talk can be replaced by your service as a seminar
chair/moderator (recommended to PhD students!)
• R (Reading)
– Presentation of a recent paper
• Detailed review of the paper with discussion (might involve
reading some of the related/referenced work!)
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 (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 28,
noon!!!
“O” Talk Dates
• Mar 7 – Tomas Vymetal
• Mar 14 – Maroš Barabas
• Mar 21 – Andriy Stetsko (& Jirka Kur)
• Mar 28 – Filip Jurnecka
• Apr 4 – Martin Malina
• Apr 11 – Tobias Smolka, Pavel Tucek
• Apr 18 – Vít Bukač, Roman Zilka
• Apr 25 – Easter
• May 2 – Richard Baranyi, Martin Tehan
• May 9 – Martin Stehlik, Alexandr Kuckir
• May 16 – Marek Čermák, Richard Nossek
“N” Talk Dates
• Mar 7 – Peter Jurnečka
• Mar 14 – Tobias Smolka
– Moderated by Jiri Kur
• Mar 21 – Richard Baranyi
– Moderated by Filip Jurnecka
• Mar 28 – Martin Stehlik
– Moderated by Andriy Stetsko
• Apr 4 – Vít Bukač
– Moderated by Tomas Vymetal
• Apr 11 – Richard Nossek
– Moderated by Roman Zilka
• Apr 18 – Marek Čermák
– Moderated by Pavel Tucek
• Apr 25 – Easter
• May 2 – Alexandr Kuckir
• May 9 – Martin Tehan
• May 16 – Martin Malina
(R)eadings – choice for this term…
• Any paper from the USENIX Security '10
Symposium
– Washington, DC, August 11-13, 2010
– All papers available from the Usenix web
• Link in the IS
“R” Talk Dates
• Presented - Toward Automated Detection…
• Mar 7 – Richard Baranyi: An Analysis of Private Browsing…
• Mar 14 – Martin Henzl
– Pavel Tucek: The case for ubiquitous transport-level…
• Mar 21 – Martin Malina: Understanding CAPTCHA-Solving…
– Tomáš Vymětal: Searching the Searchers with SearchAudit
• Mar 28 – Vít Bukač: Idle Port Scanning and Non-interference..
– Peter Jurnečka
• Apr 4 – Martin Stehlik: Building a Dynamic Reputation...
– Roman Zilka: Making Linux Protection Mechanisms Egal…
• Apr 11 – Andriy Stetsko: Dude, Where's That IP? Circumv…
• Apr 18 – Jiri Kur: Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities of…
• Martin Tehan: Baaz: A System for Detecting Access…
• Apr 25 – Easter
• May 2 – Marek Čermák: BotGrep: Finding P2P Bots with…
• May 9 – Richard Nossek: Securing Script-Based Extensibility..
• May 16 – Alexandr Kuckir: Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks…