6.857: Computer and Network Security
Topics from Previous Years
- SEC: SSH like client
- A Secure Media Distribution Framework
- How to Make the User Authentication Process in MS Passport More Secure
- Blinded Distributed Computing
- Security of Wireless Networks and Mobile Devices
- Cracking Digital Satellite TV
- User Authentication in Cryptographic File Systems
- Steganography in Spam
- Proactive Cryptography Applications in Smart Cards
- Execution-Based Software Protection
- Steganography in TCP timestamps
- Rethinking Software Piracy: Active Software Rights Verification for Effective Control of Piracy
- Reputation-Based Certificate Authorities
- Cookie authentication
- Analyzing the Security of 802.11 Wireless Networks
- Threshold Signatures and Open Source
- Honeypots
- Security and Privacy Issues of Microsoft Passport
- Security Aspects of Unicode
- Digital Signatures for Physical Mail
- 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
- MIT Tech Cash
- Peer-to-Peer Security
- Anti-spam techniques
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