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)

(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
trojan

“O” Talk Dates
•Oct 11 – Jan Michelfeit
–Tomas Vymetal
•Oct 18 – Michal Trunecka
•Oct 25 – Shkodran Gerguri
–Ladislav Tkac
•Nov 1 – Antonín Víteček
–Lukas Jakubik
•Nov 8 – Jirka Kur
–Martin Stehlik
•Nov 15 – Jiří Vomáčka
–Richard Barányi
•Nov 22 – Tobias Smolka
•Nov 29 – Stefan Koepsell (guest)
–Vita Bukac
•Dec 6 – Miroslav Buda – Australian Internet censorship system
•Dec 13 – Marián Novotný (guest): Design and analysis of a data integrity protocol for Wireless
Sensor Networks

“N” Talk Dates
•Oct 11 –
–Moderator – Tobias Smolka
•Oct 18 – Jiří Vomáčka
–Moderator – Andriy Stetsko
•Oct 25 – Miroslav Buda
–Pavel Tucek
•Nov 1 – Michal Trunecka
•Nov 8 – Jan Michelfeit
•Nov 15 – Vita Bukac
•Nov 22 – Lukas Jakubik
•Nov 29 – Martin Stehlik
•Dec 6 – Ladislav Tkac
•Dec 13 – Tomas Vymetal

“R” Talk Dates
•Oct 11 – Vita Bukac – Chip and PIN is broken
•Oct 18 – Jirka Kur – A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Soc…
–Pavel Tucek – The password thicket:…
•Oct 25 – Tobias Smolka - Inspector Gadget: Automated Extr…
•Nov 1 – Jiří Vomáčka – Side-Channel Leaks in Web Apps…
•Nov 8 – Miroslav Buda – How Good Are Humans at Solving…
•Nov 15 – Michal Trunecka – Outside the Closed World: On…
•Nov 22 – Antonín Víteček –
–Martin Stehlik
•Nov 29 – Jan Michelfeit – SCiFI - A System for Secure Face…
•Dec 6 – Lukas Jakubik – Overcoming an Untrusted Comp…
–Tomas Vymetal
•Dec 13 – Richard Barányi – Identifying Dormant Functionality…
•Sometimes – Andriy Stetsko – Combining Identity Federation…