| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| Wed., Sep. 9 | Koum, Jan | Ken Thompson. Reflections on Trusting Trust, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27 No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763. |
| Mon., Sep. 14 | Verma, Ashima | Ron Rivest. Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption, MIT Media Lab, March 1998. |
| Mon., Sep. 21 | Yin, Ping | Bruce Schneier. Security Pitfalls in Cryptography |
| Wed., Sep. 23 | Zhou, Hong | Bruce Schneier. Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks |
| Mon., Sep. 28 | Mei, Hua | Zero-Knowledge Proofs |
| Wed., Oct. 7 | Hom, Raymond | Cracking DES |
| Mon., Oct. 12 | Ramachandran, Jayashree | RFC 1750 - Randomness Recommendations for Security |
| Wed., Oct. 21 | Zhang, Song | Ronald L. Rivest and Butler Lampson SDSI - A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure |
| Mon., Oct. 26 | Bui, Tuan Anh | Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, David A. Wagner Time-lock puzzles and timed-release Crypto |
| Mon., Nov. 2 | Zhao, Xiang | Woo, Lam A Lesson on Authentication Protocol Design |
| Wed., Nov. 4 | Chen, Yanjun | Paul Kocher, Cryptanalysis of DH, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems Using Timing Attacks |
| Mon., Nov. 9 | Zhang, Xuebo | The Safe TCL Model |
| Wed., Nov. 11 | Halteh, Suhair | Dorothy Denning. An Intrusion-Detection Model |
| Mon., Nov. 16 | Hunyady, A.J. | Bailey, Gopal, Pagels, Peterson PathFinder: A Pattern-Based Packet Classifier |
| Mon., Nov. 23 | Situ, Bill | To be posted - Please stand by |
| Mon., Nov. 30 | Qiu, Zhaohui | Steven Bellovin. Using the Domain Name System for System Break-ins |
| Mon., Dec. 7 | Camp, Tomki | SOCKS5, a presentation on the RFC 1928 specification |