T-110.5290 Seminar on Network Security (4 cr) P V

Autumn 2006: Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing

Introduction to the topics

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During the autumn 2006 the seminar on Network Security will focus on security and privacy in pervasive computing. Computing devices are constantly shrinking and becoming invisible parts of our everyday life. The devices we carry include increasing amounts of computing power, various wireless connectivity, and are more and more intelligent. The computing environment is becoming very dynamic, and moving into a decenralized and distributed direction with spontaneous connectivity. The devices are mobile, understand contexts and adapt to the environments the user moves in. In this kind of dynamic environment with various service providers, and groups of users, security of the user's device and the services he wants to make use of become very challenging. Moreover, privacy of the user is a concern, and the handling of these countless keys and certificates becomes a serious usability problem for the average user.

This seminar will look into how the future distributed, dynamic and mobile computing environment can be made secure. Topics include privacy, authentication and accountability, availability, access control, trust management, security protocols, secure computing environments and architectures, integrity and confidentiality, cryptographic algorithms, single sign-on, credentials management, delegation, usability, and various kinds of content protection and digital rights management.

Andres Arjona topics, slides

• Authorization and Authentication Issues in The Generic Access Network (GAN/UMA)
• Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks - An Evaluation of Different Models
• RFID Security and Privacy Implications

• Distributed Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
• Attacks against P2P networks and countermeasures

• Threat analysis for home network
• Access control in home networking
• Cost of usable security
• Ubicom in learning

• Comparison of Trust Algorithms in Peer to Peer System
• Trust-privacy tradeoff in reputation based peer to peer system
• Trust Management in Peer to Peer System

• Perceived risks in home networking from a user's point of view
• State-of-the-Art in Mobile Healthcare/Healthcare portals
• Using, organizing and analysing security-related contextual information
• User-friendly passmethods for home users

• Implementing the Orwellian society
• NAT/Firewall traversal
• Better-than-nothing security

• Privacy and IT Security evaluation of Microsoft Live based services (eg. Microsoft Live Messenger, MSN messenger)
• Privacy and IT Security evaluation of Skype services
• Privacy issues related to map, localization and information services

• Group Address Configuration for Multicast Groups
• Anonymous routing
• Network Perimeter Protection

• Information security issues related to user behavior in pervasive computing environment (1-3 topics)
• Increasing pervasive system users' information security awareness (1-3 topics)

• Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA)
• Authentication in eTKK

• User Authentication in SIP
• Security Mechanisms in WLAN Networks

If you want to suggest an own topic, contact course staff and describe your topic and references (you need a tutor, too).

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