6.857 Final Project Ideas - Fall 2001
This page lists some final project ideas and resources. We are
just collecting ideas tossed out in class. Your specific project
still requires approval from the course staff. Also, we prefer that
groups work on somewhat distinct topics.
New Topic Ideas
- Build and monitor a honeypot.
- Analyze the Windows XP activation feature
- Analyze the security of PayPal and other online payment schemes.
- Zero-Knowledge File System Recovery
- Secure File Systems
- Cookie authentication systems
- Applications of Secret Sharing or Threshold Signatures/Decryption
- Reverse Engineering (legal caveats though...)
- Tempest tools
- Peer-to-Peer security
- Cryptographic phones
- Social issues in crypto regulations (DMCA, SSSCA, export law, etc)
- User authentication in the Microsoft Passport system
- P3P (Web privacy)
- Steganography (information hiding)
- Tempest
- Buffer overflows
- Timing, Power analysis
- Smartcards
Topics from Previous Years
- Differential Fault Analysis of RC5
- Secure Instant Messengers
- A Review of AES Candidates
- A Payword Implementation
- An Analysis of TIMEBOMB
- Purple: Japanese ciphers in WWII
- Identity Theft
- Approaches to MIXNets
- SmartCards: Back from the Dead
- Payment via GSM Mobile phones
- Digital Multimedia Copyright Protection
- Security Analysis of Electronic Postage Systems
- Security of Network Attached Storage
- Software Bugging
- Design of a secure Pilot-based Authentication System
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Cellular Telephone Security
- A Computer Testing System
- Copyright Protection Mechanisms in DVD + DIVx
- CGI Security Issues
- Network Access Controls
- Digital Money-- Fault Tolerant Multibank System
- Security Policy Models
- An Overview of Biometric Technologies and their Real World Applications
- Netbook
- Secure Sockets Layer 3.0: Overiew and Analysis
- Secure Perfectly Forward Secure Email Wizard
- Cryp: An All-or-Nothing Encryption Scheme for Secure Multi-user Information Distribution
- Frosty the Random Number Generator
- Impact of Quantum Theory on Cryptography
- Cartemis:Secure Electronic Wallet Technology
- Preventing Media Piracy
- Netscape's "What's Related" Service and Privacy/Security Issues
- Secure Electronic Poker
- PGP vs S/MIME
- A Study of SSH
- ATM A trusted machine?
- Secure Mobile Code Framework
- Pseudonyms and Credential Transfer
- Electronic Payment Schemes
- eCheck:A Safety-Oriented Electronic Check Scheme
- Computing with Encrypted Data
- Receipt-Free Secure Elections
- A well-hidden module for remote control of Linux machines
- The feasibility of quantum computation
- Network Security for Chat Programs
- Electronic Voting
- New MIT Card
Sample proposal
Other sources of ideas
Hints for writing your paper and giving your talk
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