Cryptography II Term Papers
VCSG-706, Spring 2013

Choosing a Topic

In general, I prefer more algorithm and cryptography oriented focus, but security topics (with significant cryptography component) are also fine.


First step, due March 27 (Wed)

You may still have doubts what to do, but you have to complete the steps below. You can work with somebody else in pair.


Second step, April 10 (Wed)

All students have fixed subjects of their term papers. Include in the paper website the main sources and references used in your project. We will review in class all proposed topics, suggest modifications and possible team work.


Third step, due May 10 (Fri)

Formatted hardcopy of the papers, presentation slides and accompanying documents have to be posted on the web in pdf.


Fourth step, due May 15 (Wed)

Send to spr@cs.rit.edu reviews of 3 projects of your choice. Please, send the reviews in 3 separate email messages in plain text (not as an attachment, not encrypted), containing only the review. The subject line of the message must have the form i.j, where i is your index and j is the index of the project you are reviewing. For example, the subject line of the message from the author of (#4) commenting on the paper by (#6) should have the subject "4.6". I will concatenate all reviews (without mail headers, not in index order) and send them to the authors of the papers.


Subjects/presentations/papers from spring 2013

  1. Kevin Allison, Malleability of Cryptosystems, 4/29
  2. Sara Bredin, Chaos Theory and Cryptography, 5/8
  3. Joe Bullard, Zero Knowledge Proofs, 5/8
  4. Xuan Guo, RC6, 5/8
  5. Scott Johnson, Recent 'CRIME' Attacks on TSL/SSL, 5/1
  6. Liam Morris, Homomorphic Encryption, 5/6
  7. Marcin Owczarczyk, Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems, 4/29
  8. Eric Salinger, Information Theory, 5/8
  9. Chaim Sanders, Linear and Differentail Cryptanalysis Attacks, 4/29
  10. Gordon Werner, Efficient implementation of secure processor systems, 5/1
  12. Stanislaw Radziszowski, instructor, Hashing slides and links


List of papers and presentations from the Spring 2012 quarter
List of papers and presentations from the Spring 2011 quarter
List of papers and presentations from the Spring 2010 quarter
List of papers and presentations from the Spring 2009 quarter

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