Project Presentations at Graduate Course in Security
Students in my graduate course on computer security are presenting their term papers on April 10. The topics vary from evaluation of Sybil detection mechanisms to detection of DDoS attacks on grid clusters. This mini-conference is open to public.
The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection
Password meters tell users whether their passwords are “weak” or “strong.” In this paper, we report on a laboratory experiment to examine whether these meters influenced users’ password selections when they were forced to change their real passwords, and when they were not told that their passwords were the subject of a study. We observed […]
Teaching Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks
This term, I’m teaching a graduate seminar-based course on security and privacy in online social networks. Students in the course are reading, presenting, critiquing, and discussing most significant and most recent papers from top venues on the subject. They also do a project related to security and write a term paper based on it. […]
Presentations of Term Projects in the Security Course
In my undergraduate course on security, we are holding a mini-conferenceon December 4, where each team of 3-4 students will present their term project. Project topics are diverse and practical. The mini-conference is open to public. See its schedule for location information and presentation times. The projects will be evaluated by the representatives of the high-tech industry.
Speculative authorization and its sibling ideas
Performance overhead due to the authorization delays can be reduced if the access control decisions are pre-computed beforehand and placed into the cache of the policy enforcement point (PEP). LERSSE alumni Pranab Kini has explored the design space for speculative authorizations. A journal version of his thesis has been recently published IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. This was instantiation of […]