HTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationaler Studiengang Internationale Medieninformatik (Bachelor) Aktuelle Themen: Cryptography Winter Term 2019/20

These are the topics you can choose for your poster project and term paper. The poster is worth 10 % of your grade, the paper (approx. 5 DIN A4 pages long) is worth 15 %. You must work with a partner on this. We will conduct the poster session on Jan. 5, 2017. You must hand in your paper on the topic by Feb. 2, 2017 as a PDF in the Moodle room. Each person hands in his or her own copy.

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

• Cryptography in voting, especially the recent election in Moscow
• 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
• Digital Audio 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
• 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
• Visuelle Cryptographie
• DE-Mail
• Mathematical proof that the one-time pad is secure
• Sidechannel Attacks
• Bitmessage