Remember to fill in the blanks (there are 5 of them in total!), and think about how to adapt this template to fit your specific project. ========================================================== Dear [___], We are a group of MIT students interested in your software [___]. We would be very interested in doing a security review of [___] as our class project this spring, with your permission. The project would be for the class Computer and Network Security, taught by Professors Ron Rivest and Yael Kalai. The idea of the project would be to review [---the protocols? website? some part of the software?---] and look for potential security issues. We would write a project report at the end of the semester. The class policy is to make project reports publicly available at the end of the semester. However, any potential vulnerabilities we find would be reported to you before our report is made publicly available, and we can also delay the publication of our report by up to 6 months if needed to allow for fixes to be developed and rolled out. In some cases, past projects have been conducted in collaboration with companies, and in other cases, the student teams have operated independently after receiving permission from the company. We'd be grateful for any collaboration you may be willing to provide, or we'd also be happy to work independently. Would this be of interest to you? If you're willing for the project to go ahead, we would very much appreciate your permission by email reply (including acknowledgement that our report will eventually be made public, subject to the policy described above). If not, we'd appreciate it if you could let us know anyway, so we can make alternative plans for our class project. (We are required to have obtained permission and submitted our initial project proposal by March 24th.) Thank you! We look forward to hearing from you. [---students' names---]