Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating

PLAGIARISM

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Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion

Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are provided as indicative examples …..

Cheating: including taking unauthorised material into an examination; consulting unauthorised material outside the examination hall during the examination; obtaining an unseen examination paper in advance of the examination; copying from another examinee; using an unauthorised calculator during the examination or storing unauthorised material in the memory of a programmable calculator which is taken into the examination; copying coursework.

Falsifying data in experimental results.

Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under these Regulations.

Bribery or attempted bribery of a person thought to have some influence on the candidate’s assessment.

Collusion to present joint work as the work solely of one individual.

Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the candidate’s own.

Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment.

Assisting in any of the above.

Some notes on what this means for students:

Copying another student's work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper or from a computer file, and in whatever form the intellectual property being copied takes, including text, mathematical notation and computer programs.

Taking extracts from published sources without attribution is an offence. To quote ideas, sometimes using extracts, is generally to be encouraged. Quoting ideas is achieved by stating an author's argument and attributing it, perhaps by quoting, immediately in the text, his or her name and year of publication, e.g. " e = mc2 (Einstein 1905)". A reference section at the end of your work should then list all such references in alphabetical order of authors' surnames. (There are variations on this referencing system which your tutors may prefer you to use.) If you wish to quote a paragraph or so from published work then indent the quotation on both left and right margins, using an italic font where practicable, and introduce the quotation with an attribution.

Security in Computing (CC5004) Coursework 1 (30%)

Investigation and Practical Activity

Write a report (around 1200 words) on Digital Signatures. The report should cover:

A clear, detailed and technical explanation of digital signatures, and their implementation and distribution in relation to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). You are required to focus on a specific type of certificate for a specific application (e.g. encrypting email or files, securing Web communications etc.). You will need to define digital signatures, examine and analyse the design of a secure PKI using a particular service (e.g. Microsoft Certificate Services) and provide a detailed account of some certificate management function. As part of this work you must consider the various services and components that make up the PKI, as well as future work and innovations/developments in this area. For the practical you will need to provide evidence (i.e. instructions and screenshots) on how to view and configure certificates in a PKI-enabled application.

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Referencing

Referencing is very important in that you are acknowledging and attributing the work of others. If you do not properly reference you work then you run the risk of plagiarism – i.e. taking credit for the work or ideas of others by presenting them as your own. It is easy to detect plagiarism! Therefore, you will need to attribute the work or ideas of others by citing the source in the body of your report. There are many referencing formats that you can use, such as for example, the Harvard APA.

As a simple example, using Harvard APA for a book reference, in the body of the report you cite as follows:

Symmetric encryption is also commonly known as conventional encryption or single-key encryption (Stallings, 2006).

And in your bibliography section you list your reference as follows:

Stallings, J. (2006). Cryptography and Network Security (4th ed.): Principles and Practice. USA: Prentice Hall.

For a detailed analysis of the report that you must use see the relevant document on the module page on WebLearn (it is titled as: CC5004 Individual Project Report template.docx).

Submission Details

The work must be submitted to WebLearn via TurnItIn no later than Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:00 PM

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