PA168 ­ Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Mon & Tue 3:05-3:55pm (B415)
Typical seminar structure
* About 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 ­ Vasek Lorenc)
­ Agreed length respected (practice beforehand!)
* Time allowance is 30-35 minutes for O, R
­ 15-25 minutes for N 
* Book your dates with me by September
29, noon!!!
"O" Talk Dates
* Today ­ Vasek Lorenc
­ Honza Samek: Using Multiple-Context Trust Model in Wireless
Sensor Networks
* Oct 12 ­ Shkodran Gerguri: Biometric RNG
* Oct 19 ­ Martin Drašar
* Oct 26 ­ Roman Zilka
­ Tomáš Pyszko: Implementation of OpenVPN with crypto tokens
* Nov 2 ­ Karol Kubanda
* Nov 9 ­ Jiri Kur
* Nov 16 ­ before national holidays?
* Nov 23 ­ Lukáš Folkman
* Nov 30 ­ Pavel Tucek
* Dec 7 ­ Vit Bukac
­ Peter Puskar
* Dec 14 ­ Jakub Dobrovolny
­ Pavel Piskac
(R)eadings ­ choice for this term...
* Almost any paper from the 18th USENIX
Security Symposium
­ August 10­14, Montreal, Canada
­ All papers (and video or audio!) available at
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec09/tech/
"R" Talk Dates
* Today ­ Jirka Kur: Security Engineering (book)
* Oct 12 ­ Andriy Stetsko: ENISA report "ATM Crime..."
­ Roman Zilka: Protecting Confidential Data on Personal...
* Oct 19 ­ Pavel Tucek: Compromising Electromagnetic...
* Oct 26 ­ Lukáš Folkman: xBook: Redesigning Privacy Con...
* Nov 2 ­ Pavel Piskac: Compression, Correction, Confid...
* Nov 9 ­ Vit Bukac: Crying Wolf: An Empirical Study of SSL...
­ Shkodran Gerguri: CCCP: Secure Remote Storage...
* Nov 16 ­ before national holidays?
* Nov 23 ­ Jakub Dobrovolny: Vanish: Increasing Data Priv...
­ Peter Puskar: VPriv: Protecting Privacy in Location-Bas...
* Nov 30 ­ Martin Drašar:
* Dec 7 ­ Karol Kubanda
* Dec 14 ­ Tomáš Pyszko: Improving Tor using a TCP...
"N" Talk Dates
* Oct 5 ­ Roman Zilka
* Oct 12 ­ Pavel Piskac
* Oct 19 ­ Vit Bukac
* Oct 26 ­ Jakub Dobrovolny
* Nov 2 ­ Jiri Kur
* Nov 9 ­ Shkodran Gerguri
* Nov 16 ­ before national holidays?
* Nov 23 ­ Karol Kubanda
* Nov 30 ­ Peter Puskar
* Dec 7 ­ Pavel Tucek
* Dec 14 ­ Lukáš Folkman