HTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationaler Studiengang Internationale Medieninformatik (Bachelor) Aktuelle Themen: Cryptography Winter Term 2024/25

These are the topics you can choose for your poster project. The poster is worth 15 % of your grade. You must work with a partner on this. We will conduct the poster session on Jan. 27, 2025.

These are some possible topics, you are welcome to choose one of your own!

• Cryptography in voting
• Cryptography and Gaming: Encryption of saved games and prevention of live hacking and file manipulation
• Ciphers in Music
• DNS Cache Poisoning and DNSSEC
• Crypto Backdoors
• OPENSSL and its weaknesses
• Cryptographic Watermarking
• Cryptography in Instant Messaging Systems
• MIX-Networks
• Wireless LAN Encryption
• Certificates for SSL-encryption
• Publically usable Digital Signature methods
• Cracking Television encryption
• TOR
  
• Hard Disk Encryption 
• Enigma and Colossus
  
• Cryptanalysis of Vigènere Codes
• Man-in-the-Middle vs. Meet-in-the-middle attacks
• Alternative Tests of Primality (AKS)
• Soloway-Strassen test of primality
• RC4 und SHA-3
• Code signing
• The Playfair Cipher
• A Comparison of Twofish, Blowfish and Serpent
• Biometric Word Lists
• Timing attacks
• Comparison of key lengths and their effects on the different systems
• Pitfalls with Diffie-Hellman
• Public key infrastructure: Promises and risks
• Smart card cracking
• The other finalists for AES that we didn't talk about in class
• Cryptanalysis of some of the above systems
• Certified E-Mail
• How big has p to be in Diffie-Hellman? (Calculating the DL)
• Factoring algorithms today
• Snowden's NSA documents
• Steganography
• Visual Cryptograohy
• DE-Mail
• Mathematical proof that the one-time pad is secure
• Sidechannel Attacks
• Bitmessage
• Ransomware