Topic: INCS 741 Cryptography
Question: Select a cryptography paper of your choice and write a 3-page report discussing the main results in the paper.
Your report should not be just a summary of the paper, but rather a critique of the main findings, what they mean, why they are relevant, and what is their impact outside of academia.
You should include -
(1) A brief summary of the content of the paper;
(2) What that means, and why it is relevant;
(3) A real-world example of how the paper results can be used;
(4) An explanation of the technical details of the results;
(5) Your conclusions and thoughts on the results of the paper.
For instance, in your report you may write "RSA is a public key encryption and signature scheme introduced by Rivest et al. [4]", and in the references you will have "[4] R. L. Rivest. A. Shamir, andL. Adleman, "On digital signatures and public key cryptosystems,"Commun. Ass. Corn- put. Moch., vol. 21, pp. 120-126, Feb. 1978."
I would prefer the SSL Attacks and Weaknesses Paper.
References -
1. The Dark Side of "Black-Box'' Cryptography or: Should We Trust Capstone? By Adam Young" arid Mot Yung**
2. Lessons Learned From Previous SSL/TLS Attacks A Brief Chronology Of Attacks And Weaknesses by Christopher Meyer, Jorg Schwenk