Winter
2014/15

Electronic Identity
[32284] SE  (2 SWS, Dipl. 3 SP / Ba. 3 SP),
Mo 9:30-11:00 RUD 26, 1.308
Instructor: Dr. Wolf Müller

 


Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

 

 
Abstract: The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to. This limits what we can do with it and exposes us to growing dangers. If we do nothing, we will face rapidly proliferating episodes of theft and deception that
will cumulatively erode public trust in the Internet. [Kim Cameron, identityblog]


©xkcd
Synopsis:
  • Seminar, Praktische Informatik
  • 2h each week, 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.

Credits:

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

  • Is possible for Bachelor, Diplom (degree of difficulty)
  • This seminar can be combined with "VL IT-Sicherheit Grundlagen" "Modul mit Seminar (BSEM)" zur Studienordnung Bachelor Informatik (Mono-Bachelor) [link]
  • Dipl. 3 SP / Ba. 3 SP
  • 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 in a term paper (German or English).
  • Presentations may be given in German or English. 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 or equivalent.

Topics :

  • ---Private or Anonymous Communication: Tools, Building blocks & Limits---
  • Survay "Was ist noch sicher" [html][BSI pdf, TLS pdf]
  • ECC elliptic curve cryptograpy [pdf][pdf][pdf]
  • HASH-basierte Signaturen [https](Oleg)
  • TOR the onion router [pdf][Attack: pdf][Datagram: pdf] (Max K.)
  • JAP "Revocable Anonymity" [http][pdf]
  • openPGP [RFC][Handbook GNUpg pdf]
  • TrueCrypt [http] (Hendryk)
  • *-crypt (Fadi)
  • Sicherheitsanalyse der UEFI-Integration und „Secure Boot“- Implementierung von Windows 8 [pdf] (Daniel)
  • ---Authentication: Techniques and Tokens---
  • Password Manager
    - "Password Managers: Attacks and Defenses" [pdf, page 449]
    - "The Emperor’s New Password Manager: Security Analysis of Web-based Password Managers" [pdf, page 465] (Jerome)
  • Alternatives for passwords (Jakob)
  • Mozilla Persona [http][persona.org]
  • Mozilla Sync 1.5 API (Theory and Praxis) [https][https]
  • oAuth2 [oauth.net/2 ]
  • W3C Web Cryptography API [http]
  • On Breaking SAML: Be Whoever You Want to Be [https] (Max D.)
  • OpenID 2.0 [http] and OpenID Connect [http] (Fabio)
  • U-Prove (Technology Overview) [https]
  • IDEMIX, Identity Mixer [http] (Jonathan S.)
  • U2F / FIDO [Slides][https][pdf] (Robin)
  • ---German electronic IDs---
  • DE-Mail [https]
  • (Dennis)
  • ePASS [ICAO] (Tobi)
  • nPA: PACE, EAC [TR-03110]
  • (Katja)
  • Elektronische Identitäten und Vertrauensdienste im E-Government [TR-03107-1][TR-03107-2] (Johanna)
  • Domain-Specific Pseudonymous Signatures for nPA [pdf]
  • Browserfingerprinting (Jonathan B.)
  • DNSSEC, DANE (Dimitar)
  • ... (further topics are possible, also own interesting suggestions are welcome)

Syllabus: (Draft)

 

Date Presenters Topic Slides
20.10.14 Dr. Wolf Müller bootstrap / assignment of topics  
27.10.14 partial Consultation (fine tuning of topics)  
03.11.14 all Elevator Speach  
10.11.14 partial preparation / consultation  
17.11.14 Dimitar DNSSEC, DANE [pdf]
24.11.14 Max K.
Jonathan B.
TOR the onion router
Browserfingerprinting
[pdf]
[pdf]
01.12.14 Hendryk Disk Encryption  
08.12.14 Daniel
Oleg
UEFI-Integration und „Secure Boot“
HASH-basierte Signaturen
[pdf]
15.12.14 Jakob
Jerome
Alternatives for passwords
Password Manager
 
05.01.15   new year  
12.01.15 Max D.
Fabio
On Breaking SAML
OpenID 2.0
 
19.01.15 Jonathan S.
Robin
IDEMIX
U2F / FIDO
 
26.01.15 Johanna
Dennis
Elektronische Identitäten und Vertrauensdienste
DE-Mail
 
02.02.15 Tobi
Katja
ePASS
nPA: PACE, EAC

[pdf]
09.02.15 Fadi OpenPGP  


Recent / Incoming:

Further Readings (Research@SAR & Books):cover

 Links
Cambridge
Ross Anderson's home page
Bruce Schneier
home page
Safe Personal Computing
(DE)
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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