Current Topics in Information Security

Overview

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

Assistant:

Dr. Yoshimichi Nakatsuka, Dr. Francesca Falzon, Mélisande Zonta-Roudes

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

Credits: 2 ECTS (2S)

Language: English

Course contact address:  

Announcements

• 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.
• The first presentation of the course will be on Monday, 7 October 2024.

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 / Shinde)
• Secure & Trustworthy System (Shinde)

Course material

• protected page Available papers  (login with your nethz credentials).
• Download Course introduction (PDF, 96 KB) by Yoshimichi Nakatsuka.
• 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.