PA168 – Postgraduate seminar
on IT security and cryptography
Vašek Matyáš & Jan Staudek &
Zdeněk Říha & Petr Švenda
Email: matyas@fi.muni.cz
Typical seminar structure
• 3 presentations for the start
• Discussion related to above
• News/developments update
– Recent news
• New results/achievements (no attack stats!)
• Crypto-Gram (B. Schneier), comp.risk,
• http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/
– Own insight / analysis / view
Your presentations
• O (Own work)
– On the topic of your current research / interest
– Ideally as a training for your needs
• Presentation for a conference/workshop, thesis, etc.
• N (News)
– Presentation of news from the last week (or so)
– This talk can be replaced by your service as a seminar
chair/moderator (recommended to PhD students!)
• R (Reading)
– Presentation of a recent paper
• Papers proposed during the term
• Detailed review of the paper with discussion
Marking & Language
• The course primary language is English!!!
– In Czech only when the ultimate target for your
presentation requires this
• M.Sc. thesis presentation
• Czech conference presentation
• Mark comprises:
– O presentation 40%
– R & N presentation 30% each
– Resulting P(ass) for 75% or more
• Other activities (conference report, etc.) can yield
up to 10% bonus
All presentations
• Well structured
– Slides!
– Agreed length respected (practice beforehand!)
• Time allowance is 25-35 minutes for O
– 20-25 minutes for R and N
• Book your dates with Vashek Matyas by
Mar 2, noon!!! (e-mail)
“O” Talk Dates
• Feb 28 – Filip Jurnečka
• Mar 6 – Andriy Stetsko
• Mar 13 –
• Mar 20 –
• Mar 27 – Tobias Smolka
• Apr 3 – Martin Stehlik
• Apr 10 –
• Apr 17 – Matej Pristak
• Apr 24 – Stefan Miklosovic
• May 1 & 8 – National holidays
• May 15 – Martin Kvocka
“N” Talk Dates
• Feb 28 – Tobias Smolka
• Mar 6 – Matej Pristak
• Mar 13 –
– Moderated by Martin Stehlik
• Mar 20 –
– Moderated by Filip Jurnecka
• Mar 27 – Stefan Miklosovic
• Apr 3 –
• Apr 10 –
• Apr 17 – Martin Kvocka
• Apr 24 –
• May 1 & 8 – National holidays
• May 15 –
(R)eadings – choice for this term…
• Any paper from the 20th USENIX Security
Symposium (2011)
– All papers available from the Usenix web
• Link in the IS
“R” Talk Dates
• Feb 28 – Jiri Kur: Don't trust satellite phones: A security…
• Mar 6 – Filip Jurnečka: Fast and Precise Sanitizer Analysis…
• Mar 13 – Tobias Smolka: Q: Exploit Hardening Made Easy
• Mar 20 –
• Mar 27 –
• Apr 3 – Andriy Stetsko: Measuring Pay-per-Install…
• Apr 10 – Stefan Miklosovic: Dark Clouds on the Horizon…
• Apr 17 – Matej Pristak: SMS of Death: From Analyzing to…
• Apr 24 – Martin Kvocka: Enabling Fast Detection and Forensic
• May 1 & 8 – National holidays
• May 15 –