Course Calendar

Below is the calendar for this semester course. This is the preliminary schedule, which may need to be altered as the semester progresses. It is the responsibility of the students to frequently check this web-page for schedule, readings, and assignment changes. As the professor, I will attempt to announce any change to the class, but this web-page should be viewed as authoritative. If you have any questions, please contact me (contact information is available at the course homepage).

Date Topic Assignments Due Readings/Discussions
(do readings before class)
Slides
08/19/08 Introduction Syllbus (link)

Slides
08/21/08 Cellular Network Security P. Traynor, W. Enck, P. McDaniel and T. La Porta, Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), 2008. Presenter: Patrick Traynor (link) Slides
08/26/08 Cellular Network Security P. Traynor, W. Enck, P. McDaniel and T. Porta, Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), April 2009. Presenter: Patrick Traynor (link)

G. Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946. (link)

Slides
08/28/08 Cellular Network Security Research Interest Profile P. Traynor, P. McDaniel and T. La Porta, On Attack Causality in Internet-Connected Cellular Networks, USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), August, 2007 Presenter: Patrick Traynor (link)

In Class Exercise: Why Publish?

Slides
09/02/08 Analog Telephony Security R. Rosenbaum, Secrets of the Little Blue Box, Esquire Magazine, 1971. (link)

M. Sherr, E. Cronin, S. Clark and M. Blaze, Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy. November/December 2005. Presenter: Frank Park (link)

Overview Wiretap
09/04/08 Network Security S. Bellovin, Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite. Computer Communications Review 2:19, pp. 32-48, April 1989. Presenter: Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (link)

In Class Exercise: Idea Generation - What Are My Hammers?

TCP/IP Ideas
09/09/08 Network Security S. Staniford, V. Paxson and N. Weaver, How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2002. Presenter: Eric Liu (link)

J. Bethencourt, J. Franklin, M. Vernon, Mapping Internet Sensors With Probe Response Attacks, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2005 Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (link)

Worm Probes
09/11/08 Network Security J. Saltzer, D. Reed and D. Clark. End-to-end arguments in system design. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2, 4 (November 1984), pages 277-288. Presenter: Ankur Aggarwal (link)

In Class Exercise: What is an Abstract?

E-to-E Probes
09/16/08 5 Minute Project Idea Presentations
09/18/08 Software Vulnerabilities Aleph One, Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit, Phrack 49, 1995. Presenter: Pranay Kolakkar (link)

In Class Exercise: How Do We Publish Vulnerabilities Responsibly?

Stack Disclosure
09/23/08 Cryptography M. Blaze, Protocol Failure in the Escrowed Encryption Standard, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 1994. Presenter: Anirudh Ramachandran (link) Clipper
09/25/08 Cryptography P. Kocher, J. Jaffe, and B. Jun, Differential Power Analysis, Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO), 1999. Presenter: Italo Dacosta (link)

In Class Exercise: Writing a Useful Related Work Section

DPA RelWork
09/30/08 Cryptography Abstract Due D. Brumley and D. Boneh, Remote Timing Attacks are Posible, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2003. Presenter: Samrit Sangal (link) RTAAP
10/02/08 Wireless Networks J. Walker, Unsafe at any key size; An analysis of the WEP encapsulation, 2000. Presenter: Daniel Luo Xiapu (link)

A. Stubblefield, J. Ioannidis, A. Rubin, Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP, Proceedings of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, February, 2002. Presenter: Daniel Komaromy (link)

Unsafe FMS WEP
10/07/08 Wireless Networks A. Bittau, M. Handley and J. Lackey, The Final Nail in WEP's Coffin, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2006. Presenter: Vijay Balasubramaniyan (link)

D. Spill and A Bittau, BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth, Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), 2007. Presenter: Junjie Zhang (link)

Nail BlueSniff
10/09/08 Hardware Security Related Work Due S. Bono, M. Green, A. Stubblefield, A. Juels, A. Rubin, M Szydlo, Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2005. Presenter: Ankur Aggarwal (link)

RFID
10/14/08 No class - Fall Break
10/16/08 Hardware Security and Electronic Voting T. Kohno, A. Stubblefield, A. Rubin, and D. Wallach, Analysis of an Electronic Voting System, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy May, 2004. Anirudh Ramachandran (link)

K. Nohl, D. Evans, Starbug, and H. Plotz, Reverse-Engineering a Cryptographic RFID Tag, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2008. Presenter: Eric Yu (link)

e-voting rfid
10/21/08 Electronic Voting K. Butler, W. Enck, H. Hursti, S. McLaughlin, P. Traynor and P. McDaniel. Systemic Issues in the Hart InterCivic and Premier Voting System: Reflections Following Project EVEREST, Proceedings of the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) Workshop, July, 2008. Presenter: Patrick Traynor (link)

A. Aviv, P Cerny, S. Clark, E. Cronin, G. Shah, M. Sherr and M. Blaze, Security Evaluation of Voting Machines and Election Management System, Proceedings of the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) Workshop, July, 2008. Presenter: Patrick Traynor (link)

everest
10/23/08 No class
10/28/08 VoIP Security Description of Evaluation Due C. Wright, L. Ballard, F. Monrose and G. Masson, Language Identification of Encrypted VoIP Traffic: Alejandra y Roberto or Alice and Bob?, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), 2007. Presenter: Vijay Subramanayan (link)

C. Wright, L. Ballard, S. Coull, F. Monrose and G. Masson, Spot me if you can: Uncovering spoken phrases in encrypted VoIP conversations, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), 2008. Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (link)

language phrase
10/30/08 VoIP Security X. Wang, S. Chen and S Jajodia, Tracking Anonymous VoIP Calls on the Internet, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005. Presenter: Eric Liu (link)

N. Kiyavash, A. Houmansadr, and N. Borisov, Multi-flow Attacks Against Network Flow Watermarking Schemes, Proceeding of the USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), 2008. Presenter: Samrit Sangal (link)

voip watermark
11/04/08 Physical World Attacks S. Byers, A. Rubin, and D. Kormann, Defending Against an Internet-based Attack on the Physical World, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), August, 2004. Presenter: Frank Park (link)

D. Halperin, T.S. Heydt-Benjamin, B. Ransford, S.S. Clark, B. Defend, W. Morgan, K. Fu, T. Kohno, and W.H. Maisel, Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), 2008. Presenter: Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (link)

postal medical
11/06/08 Lock Picking M. Blaze, Cryptology and Physical Security: Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks, March 2003. IEEE Security and Privacy. March/April 2003. Presenter: Daniel Luo Xiapu (link)

M. Blaze, Safecracking for the computer scientist, 2004. Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (link)

locks safes
11/11/08 DRM S. Craver, M. Wu, B. Liu, A. Stubblefield, B. Swartzlander, D. Wallach, D. Dean and E. Felten, Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI Challenge, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), 2001. Presenter: Ankur Aggarwal (link)

A. Halderman, Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM), 2002. Presenter: Italo Dacosta (link)

sdmi marker
11/13/08 DRM A. Shamir and N. van Someren, Playing hide and seek with stored keys, Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography, 1999. Presenter: Daniel Komaromy (link)

S. Byers, L. Cranor, D. Korman, P. McDaniel and E. Cronin, Analysis of security vulnerabilities in the movie production and distribution process, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM), 2003. Presenter: Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (link)

keys movies
11/18/08 Misc S. King, P. Chen, Y. Wang, C. Verbowski, H. Wang and J. Lorch. SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2006. Presenter: Pranay Kolakkar (link)

L. Ballard, F. Monrose and D. Loprest, Biometric Authentication Revisited: Understanding the Impact of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2006. Presenter: Junjie Zhang (link)

subvirt handwriting
11/20/08 Final Project Prep -- No class
11/25/08 Final Project Prep -- No class
11/27/08 Thanksgiving Break -- No class
12/02/08 Project Final Presentations
12/04/08 Project Final Presentations
12/8/08 Final Projects Writeups Due

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