Description
Goals of this project
Improve research efficiency
Develop teamwork and collaboration skills
Organise and write clear documents
Improve understanding by confronting acquired
knowledge to new information
Discuss with your teammate which subjects you desire to investigate. If you all agree on a topic not
listed below please inform us of your choice.
For each topic some references or simple guidelines are provided together with a goal to achieve. Thoroughly investigate the chosen subject from a cryptographic perspective.
This project should take more time than project 1. Therefore do not wait the last minute to start up.
Writing a good project requires several days of work, so make sure you start early enough.
Any source of information can be used (internet, textbooks, OS documentation. . . ). However, in any
case, do not recopy the materials and quote your sources.
When reading new information, understand it, process it, consider how it relates to what you already
know, and how you can reach conclusions beyond the ones offered in your source.
Available topics:
1. Side channel attacks
Article: http://mostconf.org/2012/papers/21.pdf
Goal: as much as possible reproduce the experiments and recover a secret key
2. Breaking WEP encryption
How is WEP encryption working, and how to break it?
Goal: implement an attack to recover the secret key
Note: the implementation must be yours, the goal is not to learn how to run aircrack-ng,
but to implement the attack yourself
3. Tor, an anonymity network
Official Tor website: https://www.torproject.org/
Goal: understand “onion routing”, study the code and present at least two attacks, taken
from research articles, on the Tor network
4. Hash functions
Website on sponge functions and SHA-3: http://sponge.noekeon.org/
Goal: understand the sponge construction and implement Keccak
5. TrueCrypt is dead
Website with much documentation: http://andryou.com/truecrypt/index.php
Goal: carefully read all the documentation and understand all the possible attacks and how to
prevent them. How secure was TrueCrypt and why is it dead?
Note: the official reason is very unlikely to be the right one. . .
6. OpenSSL
Website: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html
Goal: study the code and understand the many recent security issues
7. GnuPG
Website: https://www.gnupg.org/
Goal: study the code and understand the various attacks that lead to the “important security fixes”
mentioned on their website
8. Multiple polynomials quadratic sieve*
Simple presentation: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/crab/QFS˙Simple.pdf
Goal: fully understand the mathematics behind the MPQS and implement it
9. Shor algorithm∗
Article: http://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/S0036144598347011
Goal: understand the basics of quantum computing and explain how RSA can be broken using a
quantum computer
10. Bitcoin∗
Website: https://en.bitcoin.it/
Goal: understand how the bitcoin currency works and how it makes use of more advanced cryptography and mathematics
*Those slightly more advanced projects will benefit from a softer grading policy.
Groups
Hong Jingzhou 洪劲舟 and Huang Jingwen 黄静文
Hao Yuxuan and Xu Kejia 徐可嘉
Geng Yajie 耿亚捷 and Zhu Wenyang 朱文扬
Bao Shuci 包书慈 and Wang Wenhao 汪文浩
Zhai Yifan 翟逸凡 and Zhang Yongyin 张永银
Hu Xuefeng 胡雪峰 and Pan Shengjie 潘圣杰
Han Zhuoran 韩卓然 and Mou Yipeng 牟一鹏
Wang fu 王塬夫 and Wang Jie 王捷
Zhou You 周游 and Zhao Li 赵力
Wang Xiangyu 王翔宇 and Xu Zilin 徐子临
Xu Haining 徐海宁 and Yu Chengyun 于承运
Feng Yu 丰羽 and Song Jieming 宋杰铭
Gu Yichen 顾宜宸 and Liu Yihao 刘逸灏
Peng Junda 彭俊 and Wang Dayi 王达一
Tang Shenghao 汤晟皓 and Wang Zilu 王子路
Yin Leyi 殷乐宜 and Zhang Chi 张弛
He Zhiyuan 何知远 and Ni Yanchao 倪彦超
Li Siying 李思颖 and Wu Xinyi 吴欣怡
Wang Zhiyuan 王智远 and Wei Chuxi 魏楚希
Tan Lunte 谭伦特 and Wang Jingyuan 王靖元
Cai Zhibo 蔡志波 and Chen yudong 陈煜东
Diao Zihuan 刁梓桓 and Yang Yunlu 杨云路
Wenyang 文仰 and Wu Jiaxi 吴嘉熙
Gao Jiecheng 高杰诚 and Lu Yilong 陆翼龙
Zhenwei Yang 杨振玮 and Li Xiang 李响
Diao Zhuoran 刁卓然 and Gu Ronghao 顾荣豪
Cui Shuoyang 崔朔杨 and Qian Xiangru 钱相如
Liu Qiyang 刘齐阳 and Sun Siqi 孙思齐
Sato Muneyuki and Wu Yuzhou 吴禹洲
Li Guohao 李国豪 and Wu Yichen 吴奕辰
Feng Zhengyang 冯正扬 and Zuo Jiaqi 左嘉琦
Zeng Zhi 曾挚 and Zhu Chen 朱宸
Silva Rui and Wu Wenyi
Chen Zhiqing 陈志卿 and Wu Jiachen 吴佳晨
Liu Xu 刘旭 and Zhang Kai 张开
Qian Shengyi 钱圣轶 and Song Qun 宋
Song Yue 宋越 and Zhu Wenyao 朱文耀
Wang Zesen 王泽森 and Xue Leyang 薛乐阳
Lu Chengzhe 陆成哲 and Zhang Jian 张简
Shi Yucheng 史玉成 and Xu Rishang 徐日上
Ding Kaili 丁恺笠 and Wu Chenggang 吴承刚
Hu Qiaoyu 胡乔予 and Wei Chen 卫晨
Duan Yijian 段益坚 and Hang Wei 杭卫
Vagne Lars and Zhu Yifan 朱一凡
Lan Tianmu 兰天牧 and Wang Yuchen 王宇辰
Wu Yuexiao 吴越箫 and Zheng Xuan 郑璇
