Report/Reading Assignment

 

 

 

Read and report on one of the following papers from the research literature. Your report should be one to two pages long; three-quarters of the report should summarize the paper, and one-quarter of the report should be a critique. Introduce your report with a formal citation of the paper. The report is due before Spring break.

 

 

 

Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks by Bruce Schneier

http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html

 

Johnson, N. Steganography.

http://www.jjtc.com/stegdoc/index2.html

 

Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security.  by Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Ronald L. Rivest, Bruce Schneier, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eric Thompson, and Michael Wiener

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html

 

On Computing Multiplicative Inverses in GF(2m)

IEEE Transactions on Computers, August 1993

 

The Block Cipher Square

Proceedings, Fast Software Encryption 1997

http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/square/index.html

 

Tiny Encryption Algorithm

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/papers/djw-rmn/djw-rmn-tea.html

 

RFC 1750 Randomness Recommendations for Security

December 1994

http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1750.txt

 

Some primality testing algorithms, Richard Pinch

AMS Notices, 40, no. 9 (Nov 1993)

http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~rgep/publish.html#42

 

Asymmetric Encryption: Evolution and Enhancements

Cryptobytes Volume 2, No. 1 – Spring 1996 (pdf, 210k)

http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/cryptobytes/index.html       

 

Elliptic-Curve Cryptography

Dr. Dobb's Journal, December 1999

 

A Logic of Authentication, SRC Research Report 39

http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/publications/src-rr.html

 

Tiger: A Fast New Hash Function,

Fast Software Encryption 3, 1996, LNCS 1039

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/Reports/Tiger/

 

Akl, S. "Digital Signatures: A Tutorial Survey." Computer, February 1983

 

Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems. In Proceedings of the Winter 1988 Usenix Conference. February, 1988

J. G. Steiner, B. Clifford Neuman, and J.I. Schiller. 

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/papers.html

 

Internet Messaging Frameworks

IBM Systems Journal, Volume 37, Number 1

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/371/vonkanel.html

 

A Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, by Cheng et al

IBM Systems Journal, No. 1, 1998

 

Achieving Electronic Privacy

by David Chaum Scientific American, August 1992

http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/mepeirce/Project/Chaum/sciam.html

 

Steven M. Bellovin. There Be Dragons. A description of cracker assaults

vs. the ramparts of ATT.COM. August 15, 1992. http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/secpubs/

 

Bass, T. "Intrusion Detection Systems." Communications of the ACM, April 2000.

 

Code Red for the Web

Scientific American, October 2001

 

"Firewalls Fend Off Invasion from the Net" by Lodin and Schuba

IEEE Spectrum, February 1998