PA168 ­ Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 9:00-9:55 (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,
* www.buslab.cz,
­ http://swordfish.buslab.org/
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
­ New results/achievements
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 ­ myself)
­ 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 October 1,
noon!!!
"O" Talk Dates
* Sep 24 ­ Marek Kumpost
* Oct 1 ­ Petr Svenda
* Oct 8 ­
* Oct 15 ­ guest talk of Ludek Novak
* Oct 22 ­
* Oct 29 ­ Geraint Price: Client puzzle attacks
* Nov 5 ­
* Nov 12 ­
* Nov 19 ­
* Nov 26 ­
* Dec 3 ­
* Dec 10 ­
* Dec 17 ­
(R)eadings ­ choice for this term...
* Almost any paper from the New Security
Paradigms Workshop 2006
­ Not the Bond & Danezis paper (read last term)
­ Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on New
security paradigms, Germany, Sep 19 - 22,
2006
­ ACM Digital Library
"R" Talk Dates
* Today ­ Honza Krhovjak?
* Sep 24 ­
* Oct 1 ­
* Oct 8 ­
* Oct 15 ­ guest talk of Ludek Novak
* Oct 22 ­
* Oct 29 ­ guest talk of Geraint Price
* Nov 5 ­
* Nov 12 ­
* Nov 19 ­
* Nov 26 ­
* Dec 3 ­
* Dec 10 ­
* Dec 17 ­
"N" Talk Dates
* Today ­ Honza Krhovjak
* Sep 24 ­
* Oct 1 ­
* Oct 8 ­
* Oct 15 ­
* Oct 22 ­
* Oct 29 ­
* Nov 5 ­
* Nov 12 ­
* Nov 19 ­
* Nov 26 ­
* Dec 3 ­
* Dec 10 ­
* Dec 17 ­