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Requirements for Building a Secure System for Online Performance Evaluations

Requirements for Building a Secure System for Online Performance Evaluations. Dan Rubin, James Tsai, James Watson and Philip Varner December 4, 2000 David Evans, CS 551. Meet Johnny Q. Survey. It’s time to fill out those surveys What does Johnny want? Anonymity

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Requirements for Building a Secure System for Online Performance Evaluations

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  1. Requirements for Building a Secure System for Online Performance Evaluations Dan Rubin, James Tsai, James Watson and Philip Varner December 4, 2000 David Evans, CS 551

  2. Meet Johnny Q. Survey • It’s time to fill out those surveys • What does Johnny want? • Anonymity • Relatively simple, quick method to fill them out

  3. Meet SEAS D. Admin • What he wants • One evaluation per student per class • Only valid students doing the evaluations • “Valid” results

  4. The current system • This is what Johnny sees: • Gets an email

  5. The current system

  6. Current system problems • The initial password is sent in the email • Initial attack can break in, create PIN, evaluate, and be all done. • Original system was on blue.unix. We were able to hack into the system!

  7. Sample evaluation • “Comment1.9 : Dear XXXXXX, This system of evaluating is horrible. I am glad you know exactly when I submit my evaluation. The reminder e- mails really helped. Also the pin number with my login was a nice touch. Now you will never know it is me. No. This system of evaluating is horrible. The only thing more horrible was its hounding e-mails.”

  8. Other Schools • RPI study says 85% use paper and pencil • 2% are online • MIT – uses certificates! • JHU’s College of A&S – only asks for SSN!

  9. Requirements/Suggestions • Encrypted transactions. • Evaluation and name are not linked. • Isolation of database/server. • IP restrictions. • Ease of use. • Analyze how many evaluations come from a given IP address in a certain amount of time.

  10. Demo

  11. Highlights of Prototype Implementation • Intuitive web-based user interface • Encrypted communications using Apache-SSL • Eval ID links to classes, doesn't link to person • 3-tier system- Browser + Apache-SSL/PHP + MySQL • Access to results is fine-grained (coming soon)

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