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,
* www.buslab.cz,
­ http://swordfish.buslab.org/
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.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 September
29, noon!!!
(R)eadings ­ choice for this term...
* Almost any paper from the 2008 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy
­ May 18-21, 2008, Oakland, California, USA
­ All papers available in the IEEE Computer
Society Digital Library
* Link in the IS
"R" Talk Dates
* Oct 6 ­ Andriy Stetsko: SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social...
­ Ludek Svoboda: A Language for Enforcing User-...
* Oct 13 ­ Jiri Zizkovsky: Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting...
­ Jan Krhovjak:
* Oct 20 ­ Jirka Kur: Secure Web Browsing with the OP Web...
* Nov 3 ­ Ondrej Malek: Compromising Reflections ­ How to...
­ Honza Vykopal:
* Nov 10 ­ Roman Zilka: Defeating Encrypted and Deniable...
­ Khalid Ibrahim Al Khatib:
* Nov 24 ­ Richard Benkovský: Anonymous Networking with...
* Dec 1 ­ Jaromir Dobias
* Dec 8 ­ Martin Synak
* Dec 15 ­ Marek Kumpost
­ Marek Hulan
"O" Talk Dates
* Oct 6 ­ Josef Sprojcar
* Oct 13 ­ Honza Vykopal
­Vasek Lorenc
* Oct 20 ­ Marek Hulan
­Jaromir Dobias
* Nov 3 ­ Jan Krhovjak
* Nov 10 ­ Jirka Kur
­Khalid Ibrahim Al Khatib
* Nov 24 ­ Andriy Stetsko
­Ludek Svoboda
"N" Talk Dates
* Oct 6 ­ Ondrej Malek
* Oct 13 ­ Jirka Kur
* Oct 20 ­ Jiri Zizkovsky
­ Ludek Svoboda ­ short reading talk
* Nov 3 ­ Roman Zilka
* Nov 10 ­ Richard Benkovský
* Nov 17 ­ national holidays
* Nov 24 ­ Jaromir Dobias
* Dec 1 ­ Honza Vykopal
* Dec 8 ­ Marek Hulan
* Dec 15 ­ Martin Synak
­ Khalid Ibrahim Al Khatib ­ short reading talk