6.857 -- Network and Computer Security

Class Projects for Fall 1998

As in previous years, final projects were written on a variety of topics. Here is a listing of the projects done this year (the links point to source where available):

  • Receipt-Free Secure Elections .
  • Digital Money : Fault Tolerant Multibank System.
  • Security Policy Models.
  • Network Access Control.
  • An Overview of Biometric Technologies and their Real World Applications.
  • Netbook: A Secure and Convenient Paperless Publishing System.
  • Secure Sockets Layer v2.0: Overview and Analysis.
  • SPEW: Secure Perfectly Forward Secret E-mail Wizard.
  • Cryp: An all-or-nothing Encryption Scheme for Secure Multi-user Information Distribution.
  • Frosty the Random Number Generator.
  • The 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 (To ICQ or not to ICQ)