Well, some ideas spring to my mind...

You can go with the obvious "Computer Forensics and Electronic Evidence
Gathering and their social impact," dealing with how keyloggers, etc.,
need to be identified as a sort of wiretap device and therefore well
regulated if law enforcement is to use them. You can use 2600.com for a
plethora of legal stuff on this matter. As well, take a look at the
good reading section at www.insecure.org and you'll find a decent enough
collection of material.

You can also discuss how digital signatures may be forged and how to
detect electronic forgery. This would also tie in with detecting
'man-in-the-middle' attacks.

You may also find ideas at the Department Of Defense Computer Forensics
Lab, which is locate at http://www.dcfl.gov/ They have a quarterly
bulletin which might be worth checking out. As it stands, you might
want to talk to a few law enforcement types. I don't know how much help
they'll be but it's probably worth a try.

I hope this helps,

Albert Lederer

mstevenson wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I know that most of you are practitioners in this field (as I am), but I decided to give it a shot anyway.
>
>I'm starting a Ph.D. in CS and I want to research on computer forensics. However, my advisor knows very little about forensics, and I'm having a difficult time trying to find a suitable research topic.
>
>Does anybody here have a suggestion? Perhaps some crazy idea you had but you thought, "Oh, only in grad school I'd have the time to try it"?
>
>Thanks for your input,
>
>--
>Matthew K Stevenson
>mstevensonziplip.com
>
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