Summer
2007

Security Engineering
[32 243] Seminar, 2 SWS

Instructor: Dr. Wolf Müller
Tuesday, 13:15 - 14:45, RUD 26, Room 1.308


Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

 

 
Abstract: As a user of the Internet, you are fortunate to be tied into the world's greatest communication and information exchange - but not without a price. As a result of this connection, your computer, your organization's network, and everywhere the network reaches are all vulnerable to potentially disastrous infiltration by hackers. [W. Cheswick. Firewalls and Internet Security] 
Synopsis:
  • Seminar, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium.
  • 2h each week, over one semester (2 SWS).
  • Students will present a selection of papers that will help you understand which threats exist, judge their significance and learn methods to defend your system against hackers. In addition you will explore the mathematical underpinnings of today's most common security tools and protocols. But most of all you will learn that there is no absolute security - i.e. your will have to learn ways to detect security breaches and recover from them.

Credits:

  In order to obtain credits for this seminar, participants are expected to:

  • Attend regularly (at least 90%).
  • Read each paper before the seminar, to be adequately prepared for discussion.
  • Research an assigned subject; present major findings (45 min presentation; 30 min discussion).
  • Presentations will be evaluated by two members of the audience at the end of each class (Bewertungskriterien-Seminarvortrag.pdf).
  • Presenters summarize their presentation and relevant discussion on the Seminar's WIKI page within 2 weeks.
  • Presentations may be given in English or German. All documents are in English (exceptions may be granted).

Prerequisites:

  • This seminar is suitable for students of all technical science disciplines who have previously completed courses PI 1,2,3 or equivalent.

Wiki:

Syllabus:

   SSL/TLS
 
   Anonymization
 
   WLAN WEP, WPA
 
   Anonymization of Networks
 

Presentation assignments:

Usually 60 minutes talk + 30 minutes discussion except if 2 talks are scheduled then 2 x (40 minutes talk + 5 min discussion)

Please use the PowerPoint [pot] or the OpenOffice [otp] template for your presentation!

Date Presenters Topic Slides
17.04.07 Dr. Wolf Müller bootstrap / assignment of topics  
24.04.07   preparation of elevator speech  
01.05.07   holiday  
08.05.07 All of you elevator speeches, 6 min per team  
15.05.07 D. Oepen, D. Reinert Comparison SSL/TLS, TLS for multiple virtual hosts pdf,odp
22.05.07 D. Uhlig, E. Neumann Secret Handshakes pdf,odp
29.05.07 C. Krause, M. Chiousemoglou  RSA, DSA Signatures, Elliptic Curve Cryptography pdf,odp
J. Rycko, W. Wojcikiewicz Blinding Signatures pdf,odp
05.06.07 M. Fuessel, D. Schneider Receiver Anonymity pdf,odp
12.06.07 R. Rehak, R. Scherer Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds pdf,odp
T. J. Hartmann, Burghard Güther Aircrack-ptw-DEMO, 802.11i, WPA-Design pdf,odp
19.06.07 C. Rudolf, G. Wittchen Freeheaven Project pdf,odp
26.06.07 H. Pirk, B. Pollex Freenet pdf
03.07.07   IBM Mainframes Summit  
10.07.07 D. Sait, M. Schulze Tarzan pdf,odp
17.07.07 A. Hormozdiary, E. Redlin TOR pdf,odp


Further Readings (Books):
cover

 Links
Cambridge
Ross Anderson's home page
Bruce Schneier
home page
Safe Personal Computing
(DE)
NIH
Computer Security Information
NIST
Computer Security Resource Center
NIST
Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS)
CERT
 
cert.org
BSI
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Biometrics
The Biometric Consortium
Overview (german)
OS specific
Windows-Security
Linux-Security
e-Learning
CrypTool (de)

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