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Topics for "focus" assignment

Please add suggested topics, for your own presentation or for others to be inspired by! List your names by a topic if you have decided on it, but please discuss the selection with Björn. Note that you must notify Björn about your topic choice!

See also the instructions for the PM assignment.

  • Anonymity on the Internet (Leon Ljunggren, Darknet)
  • RBAC (Role Based Access Control)
  • Security Evaluation
  • Real-Life Security Policies
  • Enforcable Security Policies (see Schneider 2000)
  • Web Payment Security: Mohammad Shahid Khan wants to work on this and is looking for those who would like to join him in a group (Zhao Huang and Peter Heighton also want to take this one)
  • Security in Wireless Networks (Taken by: Vu Huy Hoang's group)
  • Security in Mobile Telephony, and/or Voice over IP (cf. e.g. Slashdot article Oct 9) (Alexandre Lung-Yut-Fong/ Boris Granovskiy / Christina L. Nilson)
  • Security in Peer-to-Peer systems (Mubbashar Nazar & Carl-Henrik Arvidsson)
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Digital Timestamping (see e.g. http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2347 )
  • VPN (Virtual Private Networks) (Taken by Johan Lindberg, Benjamin Odiyo, Mukunda Dwarkanath)
  • PAM (see link list)
  • Access control in LDAP
  • Secure email using webmail interface (see e.g. "IceWarp Web Mail")
  • Securing a web server by proper configuration (e.g. Apache)
  • Web authentication systems (other than Basic) (taken by Martin, Josefin, Seung Joo)
  • Code certification (e.g. signed Java applets, Mozilla XPI, Microsoft ActiveX components)
  • Firewall configuration (more advanced settings than port filtering, e.g. Linux iptablesPeter Haglund ans Jose Lucea)
  • DNS security extensions [RFC2535] - technical/applied approaches (e.g. how does it work? why isn't it used everywhere? how would you make a DNS attack?) (taken by Loc, Frans, Rayees)
  • Proxy server security considerations (e.g. for Squid)
  • Computer Forensics ( Taken by Ramqvist Christoffer, Stenhall Pär, Zhang Fengming )
  • Multics security
  • Modern secure operating systems (PSOS and similar)
  • Database security in practise/theory
  • Trojans and Backdoors (Taken by: Shahram Monshi Pouri, Nikunj Modi)
  • Personal Firewall (Taken by: Jinhai Lin)

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Updated  2006-10-19 17:13:52 by Peter Haglund (student).