Hi, Im new and I need your help with my project

[Temple]

Hi,

I only have 2 days to submit my project plan.. Everything went wrong at the last minute..

I need help with new ideas/good examples to use in a software that is to simulate protocol behaviour.

My project is to analyse and simualte security protocols..

can anyone help ASAP..

temple

[Euphoracle]

This seems a bit complex to be asking the people of a forum to answer for you 2 days before it's due. Procrastination only leads to failure :\

Perhaps if you post your previous plan of which everything went wrong with, you may receive some better feedback. Your "instructions" as you give them to us (not that we are slaves who will blindly follow them) are too vague for my likings.

[Dan]

I don't know how many diffrent ideas you could have realting to such a sepfic topic.

Realy you just need to implment a protocol and try some diffrent atacks on it from the sounds of it.

So pick somthing like ssl, look up the documenation on it and try to implmenet it. Then either try to do atacks on it like man in the midel or show why they will or will not work.

Thats the best advice i can give you with the limited information you listed.

[Martin]

Write a Bittorrent tracker. The spec is available here: http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification

It's pretty straightforward to get the basics down (and easy to test, too). It'll probably take a marathon of code monkery to get it done, but it's definitely possible.

[Temple]

Thank you for the answers, and im sorry for being vague.

Basically the aim ive been given is to include a survey of key exchange abd contract signing protocols plus making a sw to simulate how the protocols work..

ive not done anything on security protocols before which is why i am at loss..

I need a specific example which i cannot think of like an attack on a protocol that i can simulate.. does that make sense?

and possibly find a new attack on protocols..

How should I go about this?

[Dan]

Well i did list man in the middel in my post, you can find more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

As for finding a new kind of attack, i think that is very unlikey in 2 days unless you make your own protical and find a way to atack that (if you made a new portical any atack on it is new unless you count the classic types :p)

In all honstly if you have never done security protocols befor or much work with networking or other protocls, you are a bit screwed. I am not shure if you can learn all that in 2 days, implment it and then attack it.

[Temple]

thank you.. im checking it now.. im a bit stressed out..

what data collection methods and user requirements would i need in this case.. im confused?

I am screwed :S

[Tony]

Here's an idea - describe public key encryption.

For the analysis, mathematically show that you don't have access to enough computing power to feasibly crack the encryption - even if you can intercept all of the public communication.

No coding required

[Temple]

Thank you for that ^^ I wil email my supervisor and see if he agrees to it