the requerment :

For CS890BN students, students willselect a topic related to Cryptography and Network/Data Security,read multiple academic research papers (e.g., conference proceedingpapers, academic research journals) in that topic and by their ownchoice, and then write a project report in regular paper format. Thereport at the quality potentially can be accepted and published by aconference proceeding or research journal will receive high projectmarks and may also receive extra bonus marks in this class.

In the project report, it expectstudents to explain what they learnt from the academic researchpapers (CS890BN) or the research papers, articles, white papersand/or books (CS435) by using their own words, explain their findingand thoughts, especially new proposals and/or something new. Furtherthan that, it expects CS890BN students to propose new ideas, such asissue(s) and/or problem(s) they find from others work, improvementand enhancement they can think and propose, new solution(s), newmethod(s), new application(s), etc. Review report is also acceptable,but still need to have your own findings, thoughts, proposals, and/orsomething new.

Reference and citation is required, atleast you will list the academic research papers (for CS890BNstudents) and the research papers, articles, white papers, and/orbooks you read (for CS435 students). Copy directly from others workis not allowed and at least you should use your own words to explain.Citation is also important and required. Please note, a project foranother and/or previous course, school program or employmentassignments cannot be reused to submit as a project to this course.It expects the student to do a project specifically for this course.