Computer and Network Security
CS594            Paper

The CS594 grad paper is a 10 page research paper. The paper should be in postscript, pdf, or html. The paper should examine issues or technologies in computer or network security. Typically, your report might be organized as follows:
  1. abstract
  2. introduction -- background information, literature search, scope and limitations of project
  3. body -- methods used
  4. analysis and conclusions
  5. recommenations -- future work, unsolved problems
  6. references -- journals, WWW references

The paper counts as 20% of the final grade and will be graded on quality of research, quality of presentation, and strength of references. Original research counts more than a critical review which counts more than a mere survey paper. Actually implementing and testing things counts more than reporting on someone else's experiments/results.

A list of possible topics follow, but you may suggest your own. A good topic would be one where you could contrast various solutions to a common problem. Due to the class size, it is expected that more than one student may pick the same topic. It is expected that each student will work alone on their project. The instructor must approve your topic.

Project milestones

Possible projects


Last revised 7/16/06.