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Dennis Kafura
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Cryptography
 Use of encryption techniques to insure confidentiality
and integrity of information vulnerable to unintended
access or modification
 Critical issues
• Algorithms
– Structure (actors, shared information, processes)
– Mathematical foundations
• Key generation
– Basis (identity, attributes)
– Trusted components
• Key management
– Revocation
– Groups/communities
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Information flow control
 Persistent confinement of information with
predetermined bounds
 Critical issues
• Analysis
– How to model information flow
– How to describe bounds
• Enforcement
– Language level (programming constructs, run-time mechanisms)
– System level (mechanisms for processes/threads, files, memory,
etc.; covert channels)
– Networked/distributed systems
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Privacy
 “The right of the individual to decide what information
about himself should be communicated to others and
under what circumstances” (Westin, Privacy and
Freedom, 1970.)
 Critical Issues
• Conceptual
– How is privacy articulated
– What are elemental factors of privacy
• Effects of technology on privacy
» Enabling new privacy controls
» Undermining existing privacy conventions
» Changing privacy conceptions and norms
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Web Site
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs6204/Privacy-Security
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Organization
Dates
Classes
Topic
Papers
Presenter
Aug 23 - Sept 6
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Introduction
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Instructor
Sept 8 - Sept 27
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Cryptography
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Students
Sept 29 - Oct 13
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Information
Flow Control
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Students
Oct 18 - Oct 27
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Privacy
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Students
Nov 1 - Dec 6
(*)
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Project
Reports
Students
Dec 13 (**)
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Project
Reports
Students
(*) Week of Nov 21: Thanksgiving Break
(**) 7:45-9:45AM, if needed
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 Presentation of paper on one of three course topics
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See Calendar on web site for dates/papers
Present one or two papers depending on class size
Make selection by September 6
First-come, first-claimed
50% of grade
 Presentation of course project
 Types
• Literature project on topic of interest to you
• Development project
 Dates
• September 15: term project approved
• October 13: intermediate report
• November 1 – December 6/13: presentation of term project
 50% of grade
 Participation
 Egregious lack of active/knowledgeable participation results in one
letter grade penalty in final grade (e.g., A to B)
 Only one warning
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Discussion
Questions?
Thoughts?
Comments?
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