Suggested Presentation Topics for
Cryptography/Distributed
Systems class

The following list is the preliminary set of topics, suggested by your colleagues. As stated in class, you may choose to change your topic, or narrow it down, to add variety or conformity to the set of presentations.

(The listing is in no particular order)

Name

Topic(s)

Tao Zhao

Process Migration + Security

Connie Leong

Clipper, Key Escrow

Mike Reinersten

CORBA, SSL, PGP, Cracking DES, Jva Crypto API, Web Applications

Igor Strugovshchlikov

Communication and Security (IPSec, VPN, etc)

Vladislav Geiko

Digital Money Protocols

Daniel Digeratu

SSL

Adrian Lungu

Anonymizer, Mixes, Crowds (hiding identity)

Alex Gleyzer

Kerberos

Celso Rodriguez

Internet Bill payment Systems

Ari Kramaier

Electronic Cash

Min Ding

Kerberos/PGP/SSL

Xiaodong Fu

security protocols for open systems

Xiangjun Chen

Signatures on Downloaded Code (e.g. Active X)

Zhen-Yang Zhang

Key Recovery

Igor Slavinsky

SSL, PCT, HUT. SKIPJACK, FORTEZZA, PGP, NetCheque

Christopher Mitchell

MicroPayment Systems

Monica Dralle

Kerberos

Hua Wang

Crypto on Internet + Security in electronic commerce

Jian Zheng

Banking, Elections, E-commerce

Yan Lu

Inspection of encrypted messages and downloaded code

Adeel Hasan

Electronic Payment Systems/ Privacy Preferences

Andrew Schmitt

Authentication, Secture electronic Transsactions (SET)

Michael Perlov

IBM Secure Card