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Achieving Obfuscation Through Self-Modifying Code: A Theoretical Model, Heidi Waddell
Achieving Obfuscation Through Self-Modifying Code: A Theoretical Model, Heidi Waddell
Senior Honors Theses
With the extreme amount of data and software available on networks, the protection of online information is one of the most important tasks of this technological age. There is no such thing as safe computing, and it is inevitable that security breaches will occur. Thus, security professionals and practices focus on two areas: security, preventing a breach from occurring, and resiliency, minimizing the damages once a breach has occurred. One of the most important practices for adding resiliency to source code is through obfuscation, a method of re-writing the code to a form that is virtually unreadable. …
Optimaztion Of Fantasy Basketball Lineups Via Machine Learning, James Earl
Optimaztion Of Fantasy Basketball Lineups Via Machine Learning, James Earl
Senior Honors Theses
Machine learning is providing a way to glean never before known insights from the data that gets recorded every day. This paper examines the application of machine learning to the novel field of Daily Fantasy Basketball. The particularities of the fantasy basketball ruleset and playstyle are discussed, and then the results of a data science case study are reviewed. The data set consists of player performance statistics as well as Fantasy Points, implied team total, DvP, and player status. The end goal is to evaluate how accurately the computer can predict a player’s fantasy performance based off a chosen feature …
Quantum Attacks On Modern Cryptography And Post-Quantum Cryptosystems, Zachary Marron
Quantum Attacks On Modern Cryptography And Post-Quantum Cryptosystems, Zachary Marron
Senior Honors Theses
Cryptography is a critical technology in the modern computing industry, but the security of many cryptosystems relies on the difficulty of mathematical problems such as integer factorization and discrete logarithms. Large quantum computers can solve these problems efficiently, enabling the effective cryptanalysis of many common cryptosystems using such algorithms as Shor’s and Grover’s. If data integrity and security are to be preserved in the future, the algorithms that are vulnerable to quantum cryptanalytic techniques must be phased out in favor of quantum-proof cryptosystems. While quantum computer technology is still developing and is not yet capable of breaking commercial encryption, these …
Random Number Generation: Types And Techniques, David F. Dicarlo
Random Number Generation: Types And Techniques, David F. Dicarlo
Senior Honors Theses
What does it mean to have random numbers? Without understanding where a group of numbers came from, it is impossible to know if they were randomly generated. However, common sense claims that if the process to generate these numbers is truly understood, then the numbers could not be random. Methods that are able to let their internal workings be known without sacrificing random results are what this paper sets out to describe. Beginning with a study of what it really means for something to be random, this paper dives into the topic of random number generators and summarizes the key …