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CMSC 626 - Principles of Computer Security
Fall 2006 
Krishna Sivalingam
Term Project: Final Report  Requirements.
Due: Dec. 13, 2006, 11pm using On-line submit. Submit a tar-gzipped
file with report in PDF format and source code/data files.

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Part A. TEAM SUBMISSION (required for both group and individual team projects)
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The report should be typewritten/printed, single-spaced, with 1-inch
margin on all sides, use 11pt font, and be between 10 and 15 pages
long.

The recommended report organization is as follows:

1. Introduction: Problem/System Description; Motivation to study this
		  particular problem; Proposed Solution/System
		  Architecture & Why the solution is better

2. Background and Related Work: Summary of published work related to
your problem. This should be a fairly detailed summary (2 pages or
so). This will convey your efforts in background material reading.

3. System and Security Architecture: Describe the system that you are
   developing and/or the specific problem that you are trying to
   solve. Explain clearly how the project relates to computer
   security. 

   Present a DETAILED system design or problem solving
   algorithm/mechanism that specifies the relevant security
   components.

   You must also discuss to what extent the 8 principles of secure
   system design were followed in this project, as described on page
   252-253 of Pfleeger/Pfleeger's textbook.

   You must also discuss which secure coding techniques were used in
   your project implementation - refer to the Project 2 description
   required by 426 students.

4. Implementation Details and Performance Study

   Describe known weaknesses or possible security exploits against
   your system, that you know could exist due to design/implementation
   choices. 

5. Bibliography of references: Use the IEEE or ACM format for
   references. References should be complete and include Authors,
   Title, Journal Name, Volume, Number, Month/Year, Pages. For
   conferences, spell out the conference name and include
   location. Note that each listed document in the references list
   MUST be cited within the document.

6. Your opinion on whether the paper is almost ready (with some extra
   work) to be submitted to a conference or journal. If so, which
   would be the most appropriate ones?

NOTE: A Professional quality report is expected. Pay attention to the
clarity of the graphs. Be sure to spell check and ensure that there
are no spelling or grammatical errors. The penalties will be high for
trivial errors.


Part B. INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSION BY EACH TEAM MEMBER (Only for group projects)
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IF you worked as a team, each team member must email me with the
following information:
 
a.   Describe how the project work was shared between the team members,
   and your evaluation of your team member's participation.

b.   Comment on your experience, working as a team.

c.   List your OVERALL respective contributions to the project,
considering work done throughout the semester:

   e.g. yourself: 60%; team member Y: 40%

   (Should add up to 100%; be honest in your evaluation)

d. Comments to instructor on the term project format and how it may be
improved. 
  
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