6.857 Lecture References - Fall 2001

Below are links to material relevant to our lectures. Students are responsible for knowing the contents of the handouts, the contents of the lecture notes, and any other items that are starred. To suggest the addition of a hyperlink or paper, email 6.857-staff@mit.edu.

Lecture 01 (Th 9/06/2001): Introduction

Lecture 02 (Tu 9/11/2001): Passwords and Cookies

(Including guest lecture by Kevin Fu on cookies)

Lecture 03 (Th 9/13/2001): Electronic Voting

Lecture 04 (Tu 9/18/2001): Voting/Frogs, collision-resistant hash functions

Lecture 05 (Th 9/20/2001): Number theory, digital signatures

Lecture 06 (Tu 9/25/2001): GCD, modular inverses, generators mod p, safe primes, the El Gamal signature scheme, and the discrete logarithm problem.

Lecture 07 (Th 9/27/2001): Mental Poker, RSA, Blind signatures

Lecture 08 (Tu 10/02/2001): Commitments and blind signatures

Lecture 09 (Th 10/04/2001): Homomorphic encryption

Lecture 10 (Th 10/11/2001): MixNets

Lecture 11 (Tu 10/16/2001): Block ciphers

Lecture 12 (Th 10/18/2001): OCB mode and SSL

Lecture 13 (Tu 10/23/2001): Electronic Payments

Lecture 14 (Th 10/25/2001): Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Lecture 15 (Tu 10/30/2001): Smartcards

Lecture 16 (Th 11/01/2001): Digital Rights Management, DMCA

Lecture 17 (Tu 11/06/2001): Viruses

Lecture 18 (Th 11/08/2001): Viruses and Worms

Lecture 19 (Tu 11/13/2001): Practical Insecurity

Lecture 20 (Th 11/15/2001): Java Security

Lecture 21 (Tu 11/20/2001): Java Security and Biometrics

Lecture 22 (Tu 11/27/2001): Quantum Cryptography

Lecture 23 (Th 11/29/2001): Wrap-up

Lecture 24 (Tu 12/04/2001): Talks

  1. Schmidt, Magdsick: SEC: SSH like client
  2. Muller, Karlovich, Bull, Agarwal: A Secure Media Distribution Framework
  3. Burkard, Gu, Yu, Mazza: How to Make the User Authentication Process in MS Passport More Secure
  4. Cadar, Francu, Gheorghioiu: Blinded Distributed Computing
  5. Walker, Okunseinde, Newsom, Nelson: Security of Wireless Networks and Mobile Devices
  6. Johann-Berkel, Quealy, Armour, Owsley: Cracking Digital Satellite TV
  7. Yip, Hydari, Krishnamurthy, Yuditskaya: User Authentication in Cryptographic File Systems
  8. Baekkelund: Steganography in Spam

Lecture 25 (Th 12/06/2001): Talks

  1. Li, Wagner, Gilliland, Lustbader: Proactive Cryptography Applications in Smart Cards
  2. Chiou, Chou, Ma, Vo: Execution-Based Software Protection
  3. Giffin, Plitwack, Greenstadt, Tibbetts: Steganography in TCP timestamps
  4. Kottahachchi, Chan, Samaranayake: Rethinking Software Piracy: Active Software Rights Verification for Effective Control of Piracy
  5. Nikos, Luciano, Petros: Reputation-Based Certificate Authorities
  6. Bailey, Cholankeril, Zitser: Cookie authentication
  7. Cruz, Davtchev, Kim, Rahnev: Analyzing the Security of 802.11 Wireless Networks

Lecture 26 (Tu 12/11/2001): Talks

  1. Cody, Cotler, Hastings, Langer: Threshold Signatures and Open Source
  2. Bevilacqua, Itsara, Kochman, Reinstein: Honeypots
  3. Brunsman, Leon, Lin, Cheung: Honeypots
  4. 3 Huangs and a Shi: Security and Privacy Issues of Microsoft Passport
  5. Blackwell, Andrews, Lai, Sieunarine: Security Aspects of Unicode
  6. Chen, Kim, Kwon, Medak: Digital Signatures for Physical Mail
  7. Pick, Mine, Traub, Stein: Peer-to-Peer Security: Limits of Trust, DDOS, and Covert Channels
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