Papers

A collection of papers written by members of devtarget (well most of this stuff is directly taken from Sebastian's masters course, thus some credits must also go to his fellow student Stefan Seufert, cheers!):

/// Internet censorship: Sebastian's master thesis "Investigating large-scale Internet content filtering", a paper on countrywide Internet censorship and ways to defeat such censoring. Features the current situation of Internet filtering in the People's Republic of China (format: PDF, author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Formal software verification: A paper featuring a solution to an assignment in formal software verification written in Spin/Promela, source code (in Promela) is available here (module: Secure Software Development, format: PDF, author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Breaking a weakened version of the Tiny Encryption Cipher (TEA), 24bit: A report on breaking a weakened variant of the TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorithm) cipher. Source code available on request (module: Cryptography, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Microsoft closed their MSN chatrooms in the UK: A ethical analysis (non-technical!) of Microsoft's decision to close down their MSN chatrooms in Britain (module: Law & Ethics, format: PDF, author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Face detection and face recognition in Visual Basic .NET: A paper about an implementation of a face detection and face recognition algorithm in Visual Basic .NET based on neural networks (module: Biometrics, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Firewall analysis: A brief sample analysis of an iptables firewall ruleset (module: Network security, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// A sample forensic exam: A sample exam for CA 616 (Forensic Computing) covering a variety of topics from the course (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Reconstructing web browsing activities and deleted files on Windows: A lab report on reconstructing web browsing activities and deleted files on Windows (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Forensic analysis of a Windows honeypot/honeyclient: A lab report featuring a brief live analysis of a compromised Windows honeypot/honeyclient (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Hostile code: A lab report on hostile code featuring computer viruses and rootkits (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Hidden metadata in Microsoft Word files: A paper on hidden (aka metadata) and blackened data in Word and PDF files. (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Honeynet Project: Scan of the Month #24: A forensic lab report featuring a sample solution for the Scan of the Month #24 issued by the Honeynet Project (module: Forensic Computing, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Beginners guide to capturing passwords (kind of): How to capture telnet passwords, a beginners guide - kind of (module: Network Security, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Lost & deferred update problem (mutex, semaphores etc.): A short paper on the lost and deferred update problem with code in C and Java (module: Advanced Operating Systems, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten)

/// Implementing Linux kernel backdoors: A report describing the implementation of Linux kernel backdoors (module: Advanced Operating Systems, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Physical (in-) security - Linux on a single floppy disc: An assignment illustrating how to exploit physical (in-) security by creating a Linux version which fits on a single floppy disc (module: Advanced Operating Systems, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// A report on SELinux: An introduction to SELinux, an implementation of mandatory access control for the Linux kernel (module: Advanced Operating Systems, format: PDF, authors: Stefan Seufert & Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Operating system detection with hping: A small table to help people performing operating system detection with hping (author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).

/// Buffer Overflows for Dummies: A simple introduction (tutorial) on exploiting buffer overflows (author: Sebastian Wolfgarten)

/// Disassembling hello world: Disassembling hello world, an introduction to disassembling stuff on Linux/x86 (author: Sebastian Wolfgarten).