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SecT Computer Security Seminar T echnische Universität Berlin, Security in T elecommunications seminar@sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de Berlin, 21 st of April 2017

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers What is this all about? The Computer Security Seminar course addresses current ongoing research issues in the field of Internet Security, Cryptography, Foundation of Security, Hardware Security, Software Security, and T elecommunication Security. University researchers provide different research topics every semester and tutor the students. You should have profound knowledge in computer security and good English for reading scientific papers. 2 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Appointments Every Friday 10-12am, TEL Audi2 (20th floor), 3 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Organization 15 papers Each week one presentation (Organized corresponding to attendance) Pick three papers in order of interest by Sunday, list attached to slides, slides will be available online. Paper in the end. Hint: Headstart, 3 4 th a page per week and you are on the way. 4 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Goals Practice to work with scientific literature. Practice of professional/scientific talks. Practice of writing a scientific paper. Obtain experience in conducting literature research specific to the field. Find, read, and analyze current documents and technical reports. 5 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers The grade is based on: Your presentation(s). A template will be made available in time. Your presentations will be on the paper for that week. 45min presentation / 45min discussion in the group led by you. Do: Present the paper, put it into context and investigate the related literature! Also do: Mail the slides to seminar@sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de so they can be distributed to the other students. (deadline: midnight before the presentation) Your participation during the presentations. 6 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers The grade is based on: Your final paper. Your paper should have min. 10 / max. 15 pages including references and appendix with the template supplied at: https://gitlab.sec.t-labs.tu- berlin.de/seminar/template It should be a “A Brief History of IT-Security”. That means: The seminar is a starting point. You should use LaT eX for the document. Hand-ins have to be performed in PDF form using the supplied template (If you can produce IEEE Conference style compliant documents with $other_software that is fine as well.) deadline: 31st July, 23:59 UTC, by mail to seminar@sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de Important: Being late on any deadline results in an 0.3 point reduction for your final grade per started 24h-slot you are late. If you register you get a mark. 7 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers How to pick your presentation... From the 15 papers offered at the end of this presentation, pick three, ordered by what you would like to do most. Send this choice to: seminar@sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de Deadline: Sun, April 28th, 23:59 UTC SHARP 8 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Finding Papers Google scholar/Equivalent services. IEEE Explorer etc. Start with a few reference papers. While searching: Start with sorting them by title/abstract. Search from the TUB Wifi/VPN! 9 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Reading While searching... if the title does not help. Title - Abstract - Introduction (Research question/Contribution) - Conclusion. If it is relevant: Read thoroughly. 10 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Relevance et al. Where was it published. Conference? Workshop? Journal? What reputation does that entity have? How well is the paper cited? What is the reception in the field? You also have to cite a paper to criticize it. Or if it simply was “the first” one. Read around (the references)! Who are the authors? Well respected or some undergrad students? 11 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Content... Is the paper well-structured? Do the methods seem sound? Are they well explained? Is the document logically contingent? 12 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers The structure of a scientific paper... Abstract Introduction Related Work Method Results Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 13 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Abstract Has to rise the readers appetite. Should give the reader an overview of the papers contents. Should not only be a short summary of the paper. 14 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Introduction Invite the reader to the topic. Underline the relevance of the topic. State the initial hypothesis/research question. Summarize your contribution. 15 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Related Work Elaborate on previous and related work in topic. Provides the context of your work. Shows that you involved yourself with the related work. For literature work like yours, this should be moved to the Results section. 16 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Method Explain how you will solve your research question. Show why this method is valid. Not relevant for literature paper. Although you could elaborate on your literature work here, and why it will solve your research question. 17 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Results State what you have found. Discuss it thereafter. In a literature work this is basically a big related work section. 18 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Conclusion Based on the data you have gathered/found, draw appropriate conclusions. Make sure that your conclusion matches your research question/answers your hypothesis. State further research opportunities. 19 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Bibliography See: How to cite later on. 20 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Appendix Here you can provide information that is not essential to your paper, but should be published as well. Examples: Datasets, Source-code, detailed method descriptions, non-essential proofs. 21 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Style Write formal. No don’t, can’t... Be very careful with abbreviations (etc.; i.e.;). Use either 3rd person plural or 1st person plural (There is some debate on this in the community). Try to prevent filler-words. (“weasel words”). Make sure your text is grammatically and orthographically correct. Prevent repetitions. Be objective. Make sure that your work is reproducible. 22 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers First things first: Bad paraphrasing without citing, copy-paste actions or “forgetting” of citations will result in failing the course. In the best of all cases. Please note that this also includes any hand-ins labeled as drafts. 23 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Example Bib-Item: Paper [23]T. Fischer, A.-R. Sadeghi, and M. Winandy. A pattern for secure graphical user interface systems. In 20th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Application, 2009. DEXA’09 , pages 186–190. IEEE, 2009. Index Authors Title Conference/Journal, Pages, Publisher, Year Only cite the base-work. No single chapters/page numbers. Give page numbers via in-text references: [23, p. 42ff] Tipp: Google Scholar has an “import into bibtex feature”. 24 / 48

http://openocd.sourceforge.net/doc/html/ Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Example Bib-Item: URLs OpenOCD User’s Guide 0.8.0-dev, Section 11.3. (online) CPU-Configuration.html , accessed: T ue Jun 25 19:17:33 CEST 2013 Title (of the page) URL When was it accessed by the authors? 25 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Citing & Paraphrasing If you make a claim that is not common knowledge, you have to prove it. (Reference or Data). If you pick up/follow an idea, cite those who had it! If you provide a reference, you have to briefly describe what is in there. And if you do that, you have to provide a reference. Also: Note the author by name. However: Do not simply paraphrase. The same applies to pictures! 26 / 48

Introduction Find/Read papers Write Citations & Plagiarism Papers Examples Examples taken from: Hornyack, Peter, et al. ”These aren’t the droids you’re looking for: retrofitting android to protect data from imperious applications.” Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security. ACM, 2011. Good and bad citations are self-created. 27 / 48