A lot of software and hardware products that one may use everyday contain solutions to protect certain aspects of security. In this project, you will study one topic based on published papers, reports, and news items to understand the technical details of its security solution and possible issues.

For your convenience, here is a list of papers, reports, and news items, each corresponding to a possible topic. Please choose one for your project.

• Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0
• got HW crypto? On the (in)security of a Self-Encrypting Drive series
• XcodeGhost
• The Sorry State of TLS Security in Enterprise Interception Appliances
• The Return of Coppersmith's Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli
• LastPass says employee's home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken and LastPass Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions
• Anker's Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras
• App Malware and Analysis Report

Submit the following to Blackboard for this project.

1. A project report of no less than 500 words. In particular, please address the items below (you may need to perform additional research online).
   • The threat and the security policy, i.e. what should be protected?
   • Technical details of the security solution or issues with it.
   • Is the security solution effective? Why or why not? If yes, will there be any new threats? If no, how to improve the security solution?

The project should be done individually. You can discuss the project with other students but all the source code and writings should be your OWN. PLAGIARISM and called for DISCIPLINARY ACTION. NEVER share your source code and reports with others.