COMP715/815GB:2014 Marcel


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 * Planned Meeting Times:
 * Mondays 8:30pm - 9:30pm


 * Group leader:
 * Marcel
 * Students:
 * Dakota
 * Sam

Week of Sept 22nd
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda:
 * Discuss the first homework.

Discussion
 * In the first part of the meeting I discussed with Dakota about what happened at last class.
 * We review the javascript code and talked about the homework part of our lab.
 * In the second part of our meeting we went over the homework questions.

Week of Sept 29th
Meeting Time
 * Postponed

Agenda: Discussion
 * Discuss the homework number 2
 * We decided to double the time of our next meeting in order to have time to go over the homework.

Week of Oct 8th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.30PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Discuss the homework number 2
 * Discussed the homework questions with Dakota and check if we understood what was required.
 * We had a good brainstorming session about the lock problem. Also Khalid and Rula joined us for the first part of our meeting.
 * I went over the java-script code from final3.html.

Week of Oct 15th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Discuss the homework number 3 & Review the study materials for midterm
 * Talked a little about the homework questions with Dakota
 * We reviewed the book chapters required for midterm exam and talked about possible questions.
 * We talked about the code I used to generate all the valid lock combinations from the homework 2.

Week of Oct 22th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Review the study materials for midterm
 * Talked a little about the homework questions.
 * We reviewed the book chapters required for midterm exam and talked about possible questions and also went over the class notes.
 * We review some of the problems at the end of each chapter and discuss possible questions.

Week of Oct 29th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Review homework 3
 * We talked a little about the homework questions.
 * Discussed about digital signature and hashing
 * We review javascript code from sig2.html

Week of Nov 5th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Review homework 4
 * This was the most exiting group meeting we ever had. Everything was about Secret key hunt.
 * We talked about the decryption process and finding smarter ways to crack the password.
 * We went over regular expressions and tried a few on our data.

Week of Nov 12th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Work on homework 4 - key hunt problem Discussion
 * By now everybody got at least 8 secret keys.
 * We talked about other possible methods of encryption like multiples MES.
 * We discussed about dictionary attacks and ways of implementation.

Week of Nov 19th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Vacation - The school was closed.

Week of Nov 26th
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Homework no 5 - decryption problem
 * We found at least 2 distinct solutions to our lab problem.
 * Discussed what other methods would work
 * We exchanged a few emails about other ideas on how to deciphering the text.

Week of Dec 3rd
Meeting Time
 * 8PM-9.00PM

Agenda: Discussion
 * Homework no 5
 * Talked about the first 2 question in homework 5
 * We ran nmap utility and scaned a computer in the network
 * We talked about ZenMap and run it.
 * Reviewed few firewall exceptions on out lab computer.