COMP715/815GB:2014 Rola


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


 * Group leader:
 * Rola
 * Students:
 * Brian
 * Jonathan
 * Zeb

Week of Sept 22nd
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda: Introduction and communication preferences

Discussion Our first meeting was a little brief, all members introduced themselves and their backgrounds and how this class is related to what they do for a job. The meeting is going to be divided among the 4 of us. As each one would either arise questions, concerns and bring their own experience to the meeting so it would be as productive as possible. I created a Google Group, so we can have our discussions posted regularly along with the meeting.

Week of Sept 29th
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda:

Discussion Unfortunately we missed a couple people in this meeting, so we didn't go through much. Jonathan and I went through over few things about HW1 and we wrapped up the meeting.

Week of Oct6th
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda:
 * Homework 2
 * Types of Attacks

Discussion
 * We went through the first part of the homework, we shared information about lock bumping and salting passwords. Brainstormed the possibilities of opening the bike lock math problem.
 * We went through the class lecture and expand a little bit more about the types of attacks and what is its purpose and everyone started giving examples whether included video games or movies.
 * We had a discussions about the security comparisons of AES, DES and 3DES.

Week of Oct13th
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda:
 * Public and Private keys Encryption
 * Setting up a Enig-mail that handles PGP key

Discussion
 * Zeb's emails always signed with _ BIEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- and that is because all his emails are encrypted with his private key, and anyone who has his public key can determine based on the encrypted copy of the message that this actually from him.On the other hand if Zeb's had someone else's public key, he can encrypt the message with their public key so then only them who has their private key can open it.
 * Zeb helped us setting up a thunderbird email client, to use the enigmail plug in which is an implementation of an open PGP. And we were been able to send an encrypted emails to each other and decrypt each others emails as well using the public and private keys encryption and decryption methods.
 * The meeting was a lot of fun and everyone was very much collaborative and willing to stay even more than an hour.

Week of Oct20th
Meeting Time
 * Met over Google Group

Agenda:
 * Reviewing Midterm Notes

Discussions
 * We have covered most notes with each other, a study guide, and potential test questions.

Week of Oct27th
Meeting Time
 * Meeting was cancelled due to Midterm Exam.

Week of Nov3rd
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda:
 * SQl-Injection
 * Midterm Discussion
 * HomeWork 4

Discussions
 * We Talked about Injection flaws, such as SQL, The attacker’s hostile data can trick the interpreter into executing unintended commands or accessing data without proper authorization.
 * We reviewed the most important questions on the MidTerm. Looks like everyone did pretty well and agreed that the questions were definitely interesting and covered the whole main topics.
 * We discussed homework4 and the potential regular expression we could examine.

Week of Nov10th
Meeting Time
 * Google Group

Agenda
 * H4
 * Project Proposal

Discussions
 * Went over H4 and ideas of what we might use for regular expressions to help our search.
 * We also talked about the project proposal and what we are planning to present.

Week of Nov17th
Meeting Time
 * Met as scheduled

Agenda
 * H5

Discussions
 * We went through H5 and what methods we could use to help analyze the text.

Week of Nov24th
Meeting Time
 * ThanksGiving Break

Week of Dec1st
Meeting Time
 * Google Group

Agenda
 * Final Test

Discussions
 * We went over the main topics included in our final test, such as what is expected of us, what kinds of questions there might be, and what trick questions there might be. Brian suggested Diffie-Helman would be on there.


 * I had shared concerns that I don't have the necessary skills or knowledge about networking. Jonathon was very helpful because he currently taking a networking class and was able to provide a link to a book related to that subject. That was very helpful to me personally in understanding network layers.

Week of Dec8th
Meeting Time
 * Meeting was cancelled due to final test