Final year student projects in the field of authentication
Academic year
2010/11
"We can't promise that every single item of information will always be safe."
–
Gordon Brown
Summary of projects
The projects provide students with an opportunity to design, conduct and analyze their own research experiment in the field of authentication. The main steps of each project are:
- Implement a prototype authentication system. (estimated 15% of project efforts)
- Conduct an experiment with real people using the prototype authentication system. (estimated 40% of project efforts)
- Analyze the experimental data to compare the prototype authentication method with an existing well known method. (estimated 45% of project efforts)
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Marking schemes
B382 marking scheme:
- 10% Preliminary report
- 10% Project day
- 20% Report: organisation & communication
- 20% Quality of outcome / deliverable item
- 20% Method of technical working
- 10% Project management
- 10% Depth of achievement
M582 marking scheme:
- 15% Experimental investigations
- 30% Implementation/simulation/formal modelling
- 10% Test and evaluation
- 15% Analysis and design
- 20% Report quality
- 10% Research quality
M580 marking scheme:
- First preliminary report draft
- 20% Problem (statement of requirement)
- 20% Analysis of requirement (background research of related works)
- 20% Provisional design (possible approaches to finding solutions)
- 20% Methodology (research and evaluation plans)
- 20% Report quality & presentation
- Second preliminary report
- 10% Problem (aims and achievable objectives)
- 20% Summary and analysis of related work (background research and literature review)
- 20% Familiarisation with tools and evaluation of feasibility (initial results/programming/depth of analysis)
- 10% Project plan, milestones, deliverables (GANTT chart and explanations)
- 20% Conclusion & recommendations
- 20% Report quality & presentation
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Authentication resources
TUTORIAL NOTES
REQUIRED BOOKS
- S. Kent (Ed., 2003). Who goes there? Authentication through the lens of privacy. Washington: National Academies Press.
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- Iarossi, G. (2006). Power of survey design : a user's guide for managing surveys, interpreting results, and influencing respondents. Herndon: The World Bank.
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FORMER STUDENT PROJECTS
PAPERS & ARTICLES
RFID & AUTHENTICATION
PROJECTS & PRODUCTS
SOFTWARE & HARDWARE
UK LEGISLATION
RESEARCH SOURCES
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