ECE646 Homework 2

ECE646 Homework 2.

Exam track (required), Project track (bonus)
due Monday, September 26, 4:00 PM

Web Pages Assignments

For all web pages use:

· MS Front Page or {plain HTML using your favorite text/HTML editor}.

· White Background, default font.

1. Dictionary:

Integrate the submitted Dictionaries with the current Dictionary web page

2. Companies:

The page should be organized as follows:

Local companies

Name + URL	Location	Open for employment to non-US citizens?
		U.S. Citizens only/ U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents / Visa holders allowed / ?

Other US companies

Name + URL	Location	Open for employment to non-US citizens?

Foreign companies

Name + URL	Location	Open for employment to non citizens?

3. Conferences:

Include only links to 3-4 collections of links updated by the respective groups.

4. Courses:

The page should be organized as follows:

USA

{State1}

University + URL

Location

(City)

Dep. + URL

Program + URL

Professor + URL

Course # + Title + URL

Semester + Year

{State2} …..

Canada

{Province1}

University + URL

Location

(City)

Dep. + URL

Program + URL

Professor + URL

Course # + Title + URL

Semester + Year

Etc…

Please include only courses offered in Spring 2005 or Fall 2005. Check carefully all links.

5. Libraries:

The page should be organized as follows:

Name + URL

General Description

Supported Algorithms

(as of Sep. 2005)

Language

License

Examples of general descriptions:

Multiprecision arithmetic library

Number theoretic library

General purpose crypto library

Security protocol library

6. Literature:

Please add links to the existing Literature page under Books and Journals

7. Resources:

Simplify this page.

Remove: Surveys of Cryptographic Products, PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) , Certification of Cryptographic Products, Certification Authorities , Cryptographic Challenges, Mobile Communication Security , Export Policy, Key Escrow

Keep and update: Standards, Laws, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) , Collections of Links

Add: US Government Security Related Resources, Cryptography related Research Centers and Groups,

8. Standards:

Please check all links and Update current page, leave old categories.

9. Theses:

GMU (arrange in the reverse chronological order):

Pawel Chodowiec,

Comparison of the Hardware Performance of the AES Candidates Using Reconfigurable Hardware, MS Thesis, George Mason University, ECE Department, March 2002.

Please download the abstract, thesis, and slides from http://ece.gmu.edu/courses/ECE636/crypto_projects.htm, and place in the theses directory of the new website.

Ashraf Abusharekh,

Comparative Analysis of Multi-precision Arithmetic Libraries for Public Key Cryptography,

MS Thesis, George Mason University, ECE Department, April 2004.

Please download the abstract, thesis, and slides from http://ece.gmu.edu/crypto/ashraf/Ashraf_Thesis.htm, and place in the theses directory of the new website.

Sashisu Bajracharya,

Reconfigurable Hardware Implementation and Analysis of Mesh Routing for the Matrix Step of the Number Field Sieve Factorization, MS Thesis, George Mason University, ECE Department,

Dec. 2004.

Please download the thesis from http://ece.gmu.edu/crypto/MS_Theses/Bajracharya.htm, and place it in the theses directory of the new website.

Allen Michalski,

Reconfigurable Computing: A Design and Implementation Study of Three Cryptographic Applications within the SRC-6E, MS Thesis, George Mason University, ECE Department,

May 2005. Please download the thesis, and slides from http://michalskis.org/content/blogcategory/5/14/, and place in the theses directory of the new website.

Other Crypto Groups:

COSY: COmmunication SecuritY group, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, head: Prof. Christof Paar

Ph.D., Diploma, and Master's Theses http://www.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en_theses.html

Information Security Laboratory, Oregon State University, head: Prof. Cetin Kaya Koc

Ph.D. and Master's Theses http://islab.oregonstate.edu/publications.html

Embedded Security Group, UCLA, head: Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede

Ph.D. and Master's Theses http://www.emsec.ee.ucla.edu/people.html

Cryptography and Information Security group, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, head: Prof. Berk Sunar

Ph.D. and Master's Theses http://www.crypto.wpi.edu/Publications/theses.shtml

COSIC: COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, head: Prof. Bart Preneel

Theses: https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications

Side-Channel Analysis Lab, IAIK, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Theses: http://www.iaik.tugraz.at/research/sca-lab/publications/index.php

Collections of theses

This page should be organized as follows:

Group + URL	University + location + URL	Department + URL	URL to the collection of theses

As a bonus assignment you can also arrange all theses into the following table:

{2005}

Author	Title + URL	MS/PhD	University + URL	Dep. + URL	Month	Advisor + URL

{2004}

Author	Title + URL	MS/PhD	University + URL	Dep. + URL	Month	Advisor + URL

Etc…

Assignments

	Last Name	First Name	ID	Web Page
1	Fogleman	Janel	jfoglema	Companies
2	Gogte	Prajakta	pgogte	Companies
3	Gupta	Mudit	mgupta5	Dictionary Theses
4	Hughes	Bryan	bhughes1	Dictionary Theses
5	Wehausen	Timothy	twehause	Courses
6	Kamisetty	NagaSree Chandu	nkamiset	Courses
7	Lambert	Michael	mlamber3	Conferences Standards
8	Mittal	Gaurav	gmittal	Conferences Standards
9	Anderson	Richard	randersb	Literature
10	Jayaraman	Anand	ajayaram	Literature
11	Regulapati	Kaushik	kregulap	Libraries Resources
12	Thunga	Kiran	kthunga
13	Modepalli	Aditya	amodepal

Attached please find a compressed file containing all material related to your assignment from Homework 1. Task 2. Please check all the links provided to make sure all are working and up-to-date.

Please work in groups. Submit only one version of the page for all students assigned to work on the given page.

Good Luck.