Current Topics in Information Security

Overview

Lecturer:
Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Kenneth Paterson, Prof. Adrian Perrig, Prof. Shweta Shinde

Assistant:
Dr. Kari Kostiainen, external page Dr. Anu Unnikrishnan, Dr. Jonghoon Kwon, Dr. Ferreira Torres Christof

Sessions:
Mondays 14-​16 in CAB G57 (Track 1) and H52 (Track 2)

Credits: 2 ECTS (2S)

Language: English

Course contact address:

Announcements

• The first session of the course will be on Monday, September 25.
• For the first session, please check out the protected page list of available papers in advance and select at least 4 to 5 papers that you are interested in. During the first session, papers will be assigned to students.

Course Description

The participants of this seminar course are expected to read a scientific paper and present it in a 30-min talk and then answer questions from the audience.

The main goals of the seminar are the independent study of scientific literature and assessment of its contributions as well as learning and practicing presentation techniques.

This seminar covers a wide range of topics in information security including security protocols, authentication, applied cryptography, privacy, secure systems, trusted computing, wireless security, network security and Internet security.

Prerequisites

at least one of:

• Information Security (Basin / Capkun)
• Cryptographic Protocols (Maurer / Hirt)
• System Security (Capkun / Perrig)
• Secure & Trustworthy System (Shinde)

Course material

• protected page Available papers  (login with your nethz credentials).
• Download Course introduction (PDF, 142 KB) by Kari Kostiainen.
• Download Small Guide to Giving Presentations (PDF, 5.1 MB) by Markus Püschel.

Schedule and grading

• protected page Schedule of the seminar.
• Criteria for determining grades.