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Security and Privacy in Decentralized Networks (preliminary version)
Seminar in winter term 2006-2007

Organizatorial Meeting
October 16, 18:00h; Room: MPI 6th floor Rotunde
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Language
English
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Description

The seminar addresses current research on security and privacy in decentralized networks, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with basic topics in computer security and decentralized networks. 
Participation in the organization meeting as well as all subsequent sessions (both presentation as well as training sessions) is mandatory.

Mode/Requirements for obtaining credit points (Scheinvergabe)

First, there will be a presentation skill training session in the beginning of the term. Every participant will give a very short presentation either on certain topic, e.g., the first two minutes of the research paper currently investigated. We plan to use video recording to later discuss to improve your presentation skills.

Beyond the training of presentation skills, the seminar requires both an individual contribution by every participant and a contribution achieved within a team of two or three people (formed by the speakers of your session). 

As far as the individual part is concerned, each participant

  1. is assigned a research paper that she has to present in the class, (Note again that the talk has to be prepared and given individually by each participant, i.e., this is not supposed to be a team presentation.)
  2. has to read the papers assigned to the members of her team. Team members will always be assigned papers of similar topic in order to deepen their understanding in the respective area, and
  3. has to act as a responder for two further sessions (see below).

The group part requires the team

  1. to develop novel research ideas in the respective topic that the group has been assigned papers on. These ideas do not have to constitute outstanding research achievements, but they should be novel in the sense that they complement some of the existing works in some nice fashion,
  2. to present these novel ideas after the individiual talks/sessions. The ideas will then be discussed in the class, with one idea being collaboratively chosen as the one that looks most promising and that should be pursued further by the team,
  3. to work out the details of the selected idea and to document the results in a scientific form, using appropriate math and illustrating examples where necessary. As a guideline, the overall extent should be about 12-15 pages when typeset with LaTeX in 11pt font. You must submit (1) your team report as one Latex source and in PDF, as well as (2) the final version of your slides, before the end of term. All team reports and presentation slides will be made available on this Web site.
  4. to present the results of this group work in a session at the end of the term.

Each talk has been allocated 45 = 30+10+5 minutes as follows. The length of each talk should be 30 minutes. Additional time will be used to comment on the content (10 minutes) and the quality (5 minutes) of the talk. We would like this to be a seminar that participants can profit from, so the main emphasis of all talks must be on being understandable. In order (1) to avoid missunderstandings regarding the presentation of the assigned paper(s) and (2) to have possible questions answered, each student participant must meet her/his advisor at least two weeks prior to her/his talk.

Each session has additionally allocated 15 minutes after the talks which the team uses to present a list of potentially interesting, scientifically novel ideas, for discussing them in the class, and for argeeing on the idea that the team should work on further.

As a responder for a session, you have to read the papers of that session and prepare at least one non-trivial question for each of the papers, to be asked at the end of each talk, respectively. This means also that you must participate to the sessions, for which you are a responder.

Topics/Sessions of the seminar

The speakers of session 1 are responders for session 2. Advisor: Peter Druschel
The speakers of session 2 are responders for session 5. Advisor: Michael Backes
The speakers of session 3 are responders for session 7. Advisor: Michael Backes
The speakers of session 4 are responders for session 6. Advisor: Peter Druschel
The speakers of session 5 are responders for session 8. Advisor: Peter Druschel
The speakers of session 6 are responders for session 4. Advisor: Michael Backes
The speakers of session 7 are responders for session 3. Advisor: Peter Druschel
The speakers of session 8 are responders for session 1. Advisor: Michael Backes