PA168 – Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Office hours: Mon 15:00-55 & Tue 9:00-9:55 (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)
– This talk can be replaced by your service as a seminar
chair/moderator (recommended to PhD students!)
• 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 – Jirka Kur; 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 Vashek Matyas by
Oct 1, noon!!! (e-mail)
“O” Talk Dates
• Sep 20 –
• Sep 27 –
• Oct 4 – Pavel Tucek
• Oct 11 –
• Oct 18 –
• Oct 25 –
• Nov 1 –
• Nov 8 –
• Nov 15 –
• Nov 22 –
• Nov 29 – Stefan Koepsell (guest): Privacy in spite of
Internet
• Dec 6 –
• Dec 13 – Marián Novotný (guest): Design and analysis of a
data integrity protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
“N” Talk Dates
• Sep 20 –
• Sep 27 – Shkodran Gerguri
• Oct 4 –
– Moderator – Jirka Kur
• Oct 11 –
• Oct 18 –
– Moderator – Andriy Stetsko
• Oct 25 –
• Nov 1 –
• Nov 8 –
• Nov 15 –
• Nov 22 –
• Nov 29 –
• Dec 6 –
• Dec 13 –
(R)eadings – choice for this term…
• Any paper from the Proceedings 2010 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy
– Berkeley, California, USA
– May 16-19, 2010
– ISBN: 978-0-7695-4035-1
– All papers available in the IEEE Computer Society
Digital Library
“R” Talk Dates
• Sep 20 – Shkodran Gerguri – Experimental Security… Auto…
• Sep 27 – Pavel Tucek – The password thicket:…
• Oct 4 –
• Oct 11 –
• Oct 18 –
• Oct 25 –
• Nov 1 –
• Nov pr 8 –
• Nov 15 –
• Nov 22 –
• Nov 29 –
• Dec 6 –
• Dec 13 –