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\title{Dissertation Project Proposal - Research on cryptographic backdoors}
\author{Name: Bancha Upanan\\
Student ID: 1604026}
\date{20th June 2016}
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\section{Aim}
This project aims to study malicious and surreptitious weakening cryptographic systems focusing on NIST's backdoored Dual EC pseudorandom number generator and discuss the security against mass surveillance. Finally I will implement attacks on TLS along with relevant countermeasures.
\section{Plan}
A tentative plan for the completion of this MSc project and the tasks involved are shown as a set of milestones, accompanied with an estimated date for finishing each milestone as follows. \\\\
Research on cryptographic backdoors - 8th July 2016, 3 weeks
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\item Susceptible cryptographic systems to sabotage
\item Exploitability of Dual EC pseudorandom number generator
\item Practical attacks on TLS
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Application implementation - 5th August 2016, 4 weeks
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\item Systems design
\item Development
\item Integration and testing
\item Deployment
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Data collection and presentation preparation - 19th August 2016, 2 weeks\\
Presentation - 22nd August 2016, 1 week\\
Report writing - 9th September 2016, 3 weeks\\
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