Current Topics in Information Security

Overview

Lecturer:
Prof. David Basin, Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Adrian Perrig

Lectures:
Monday 13–15h in CAB G 57

Monday 15–16h in CAB H 52 (if needed - for schedule compression - no effect on total hours!)

Credits: 2 ECTS (2S)

Language: English

Announcements

• This course will start on September 24.
• Papers will be made available on the page linked below by September 19.
  
• The papers will be presented and assigned in the first session on Sep 24. For the first session, please make sure to check out the list of available papers in advance and to select (at least 4) papers that you are interested in.

Course Description

The seminar covers a wide range of topics in information security including security protocols (models, properties, and verification), electronic voting, e-cash, service composition, device identification, privacy & smartphones, e-health, wireless security, anomaly detection.

The participants are expected to read a scientific paper and present it in a 35 min talk and then answer questions.

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.

Prerequisites

at least one of:

• Information Security (Basin / Capkun)
• Cryptographic Protocols (Maurer / Hirt)
• System Security (Capkun / Perrig)

Course material

• protected page Available papers(login with your nethz credentials).
• Here is a Download Small Guide to Giving Presentations (PDF, 5.1 MB) by Markus Püschel that you might find useful to help you with the preparation of your talk.