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Course Project
- Key Points
- Topic: Explore or Survey a recent topic, see here for potential topics
- Can work in groups of two to four students
- Can overlap with other projects, with permission
- Undergraduate research projects
- PhD qualifying research projects
- Deliverables
- Proposal: Oct 6
- Project presentation: Dec 1 and Dec 6
- Final report: Dec 9
The goal of this project is to have an opportunity to explore a research topic in Applied Cryptography. We have put together a growing list of some potential project ideas to choose, but you are welcome to propose your own. I encourage PhD students to see if there is a application of cryptographic systems within your area of research. Other sources of potential topics could be found by looking at recent papers that seem intriguing to you. We will approve all ideas to make sure they are reasonable. Some conferences to look at for other ideas are: IEEE S&P (Oakland), ACM CCS, Usenix, NDSS, PETS.
Groups should be of 2-4 students, preferably from the same section (everyone either all from 445 or 645). Piazza has a group finding tool and let us know if you are having difficulty finding a group. Single person groups require instructor approval.
You will submit a short 1-2 page project proposal by Oct 6. This will list your group members, project idea, your plan for investigating this topic and potential deliverables you anticipate having. Only one proposal per group is needed.
You will prepare a roughly 10 minute in-class presentation. This should outline your project idea, motivation behind it, related and prior work, your research process, findings, and potential open problems.
You will also submit a writeup with a more detailed description of the work you have done and include any related deliverables. This writeup should follow the outline of a research paper with an introduction setting up the problem area, describe key related work, introduce relevant preliminaries, describe your findings, and your conclusions and thoughts on future directions. This should also include citations to all work you reference. This should be at least 6 pages.