Topic/Themes: Short Paper #2 Due Date: Description: The scenario description and requirements for Short Paper #2: Prepare a short research paper of approximately 900-1000 words, double-spaced, exclusive of cover, title page, table of contents, [actually cover/title page and TOC are not required] endnotes and bibliography. Your paper must use APA formatting with the exception that tables and figures can be inserted at the appropriate location rather than added at the end. Submit the paper in your assignment folder as a Word document. Scenario: Sandra changes banks following her troubles with MBT. At her new bank, Ultimate Security Trust (UST), RSA is used as the cryptographic system. Sandra creates a key pair and supplies to Fiona, an officer of UST who will handle her account, with her public key {eA, nA}, securing her private key {dA, nA} on a thumb drive which he keeps locked in a wall safe at her home. In turn, Fiona gives Sandra access to a key server maintained by UST so that she can readily obtain Fiona’s current public key {eF, nF} whenever she needs to communicate securely with Fiona. Things are fine for several months until Sandra sends Fiona a message m asking about current interest rates on Certificates of Deposit issued by UST. As shown below, she enciphers the message first, and then signs it Where C is the encrypted message and m is the plaintext message. A few days later, Sandra received a statement that shows a debit of $1,000,000 from her account. On inquiring, she was told that Fiona transferred the money out of Sandra’s account into an account of her own in a bank on the Caribbean island of Nevis. When reached via long distance in Nevis, Fiona produced a message ’g’from Sandra saying: "Thanks for your excellent service, Fiona. Please transfer $1,000,000 from my account to yours as a token of my esteem and appreciation. -Signed, Sandra." Sandra files suit against Fiona, UST and the government of the Nevis, claiming that the message was a forgery sent by Fiona herself, asking for triple damages for pain and suffering. Fiona has responded by claiming that all procedures were followed properly and that Sandra is filing a nuisance suit. You have been employed by UST as a cryptographic expert to assist in the investigation of this matter and help them decide what to do with Sandra issue. You obtain Fiona’s private key from the UST server, and the cipher text C, and calculate Where g is the plain text message which was obtained the cipher text C. . Your report to the UST Board of Directors should address the following issues: • From the facts as presented what can be determined about Sandra’s intentions to make Fiona a gift of $1,000,000? How did the fact help you in forming your conclusion? • What is the significance of Nevis Island? • What is the significance of Sandra’s message to Fiona asking for interest rates? • Assuming UST wishes to continue using RSA as its cryptographic system, what UST and Sandra could have done to protect against this controversy arising? • How to proceed in the litigation Your report should clearly address these issues including recommendation for the Sandra's suit, with sufficient detail and background to allow the Board of Directors who are cryptographically challenged to understand the issues involved and formulate plans for how to approach the immediate issue with Sandra, and to continue business in the future, assuming that they want to continue using only RSA. Assume that the directors do not know what RSA is and/or how it works ________________________________________
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Alcohol use and abuse -1) When writing the comparative analysis please follow: http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-write-comparative-analysis - When writing please use APA Changes 6th Edition ( level 1 and level 2 heading ) The practice section of the project involves a comparative analysis of criminal justice practices that are used to control the problem (Alcohol use and abuse) that you selected to investigate for your project. Sources for this section of the project must be about criminal justice practices such as policing or law enforcement as they relate to the selected problem.Empirical research studies should come from journals in the fields of criminal justice and criminology. The comparative aspect may be accomplished by doing one of the following: -1) Standard Option 2: Examine domestic criminal justice practice from ONE branch of the criminal justice system (i.e., law enforcement, adjudication, or corrections) and compare it with international practice on the topic from the same branch of the criminal justice system; the domestic and international practice-based analyses of the selected problem MUST be parallel (e.g., all three articles about policing and the problem, all three articles about courts and the problem, or all three articles about corrections and the problem). - o Requires 3 articles ( one article is given you have to find one domestic and one international article study of law enforcement and the topic alcohol use. ) ( if the article is not empirical then it can not be used and also the article has to be Criminal Justice related ,it can not be a sociology nor psychology ? 2 empirical research articles about domestic criminal justice practice from one branch (e.g., police) of the criminal justice system and the selected problem ? 1 empirical research article about international criminal justice practice from the same branch (e.g., police) as the examined in the domestic criminal justice system and your problem -2) Find the articles post a pdf of it. -3) Please be certain that the empirical articles that you select are on your specific topic and that they involve some type of criminal justice practice used in our field to address your particular problem. A trick to finding a suitable article is to look at the unit of analysis in the article. The units of analysis in these articles should be criminal justice professionals, that is police, law enforcement. -4) Articles study have to be a some type of impact on the police officer or the agency. - 5) The 2 articles have to be empirical in that it has to be; - Observable - Data Driven - Have or Raise questions - Sample Size - Statistics - Results - Conclusions - Limitations - 6) When done finding the articles then answer the following question for each article and elaborate to write the paper: 3. What was the general purpose of the study? What questions does it raise? 4. How does this study meet the requirements of the paper for this course? 5. Does the study use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed research methods? Explain or state why it is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. If qualitative or mixed. Do the authors directly state that it is qualitative or mixed in the article itself? 6. Do the researchers examine the macro, micro, or multi-level of analysis? In other words, what is the level of analysis of the study? Why is it that level of analysis? 7. What is the unit of analysis in the study? In other words, who or what was studied? 8. What was the sample size in this study? What data were recorded and used for analysis? 9. In sequential order, what were the major steps in performing the study? 10. What types of data analyses were used? Identify the specific types of data analysis used. For example, quantitative studies use statistical analyses. Clearly identify the name of the statistical test used by the researchers. 11. What were the results of the analyses? 12. What does the author(s) conclude based on the results of the analyses? 13. What cautions and limitations does the author(s) raise about interpreting the study? (Do not create limitations; use the cautions and limits raised by the authors.)
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