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