COMP 360 - Presentations


Schedule of Presentations

Note that all presentations are 25 minutes long. Leave some time for questions. Please do not run overtime. The format for the presentations is entirely open. Feel free to take advantage of the the capabilities of the SC 74 (e.g., powerpoint, web access, video) or not. There will be no presentations on November 27.


  • Thursday, November 29

    Alison Binkowski: The Entropy and Redundancy of English Texts
    Ranga Subramanian: Secret Sharing Schemes
    Hari Arthanari: DNA Computing: Its Power and Limitations

  • Tuesday, December 4, 9 am

    Alex Reisner: Finding Primes
    Deon Whyte: Purple Magic
    Chris Caesar: Enigma and World War II

  • Tuesday, December 4, 7pm

    Vasilios Hoffman: Real Time WEP Private Key Recovery
    Marina Teper: RSA Beats the Standard: Breaking DES
    Helen Hosein: Quantum Cryptography
    Amit Patel: Steganography
    Graham Rockwell: Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  • Thursday, December 6

    Richard Orris: Hackers, Script Kiddies, and Plain Old Stupidity
    Timothy Jones: Who Stole the Cookies?: Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in MS Passport and Horde IMP
    Curtis Younkin: Home Network Security: Methods of Attack and Systems of Defense

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