Current Topics in Information Security

Autumn semester 2019 (252-4601-00L)

Overview

Lecturer:
Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Kenneth PatersonProf. Adrian Perrig

Assistant:
Dr. Kari Kostiainen 

Sessions:
Mondays 13-15 in CAB G 57 (and 15-16 in CAB H 53 if needed)

Credits: 2 ECTS (2S)

Language: English

Announcements

  • The seminar schedule is now available. The presentations begin on Monday, October 21.
  • The first session of the course will be on Monday, September 23.
  • For the first session, please check out the protected pagelist of available papers in advance and select at least 3 papers that you are interested in. During the first session, papers will be assigned to students

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 / Perrig)

Schedule and grading

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