Lightweight Authenticated Ciphers for the Internet of Things: ACE and WAG

Departments: Electrical Engineering
Time: Friday, November 1, 2019 - 10:00am - 11:00am
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: Kalikinkar Mandal; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Room/Office: Room 233
Location:
17 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar Series

Kalikinkar Mandal
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

“Lightweight Authenticated Ciphers for the Internet of Things: ACE and WAG”

Abstract: Ensuring security and privacy in resource-constrained applications such as Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, and embedded system is one of the challenging tasks due to limited computational resources and storage available in computing environments. The devices in the IoT applications often communicate with heterogeneous devices through specialized network protocols where multiple security functionalities are required. In this talk, first I will give an overview of lightweight cryptographic techniques for securing extremely resource-constrained IoT devices such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensor nodes. Then I will present the current status of the NIST lightweight cryptography (LWC) standardization process. Finally, I will present our authenticated ciphers ACE and WAGE, which are second-round candidates in the NIST LWC standardization project.

Bio: Dr. Mandal is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA from July 2014 - June 2016, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo from July 2016 - September 2017 and September 2013 – May 2014. He received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in August 2013. His research interests include lightweight cryptography, IoT security, pseudorandom sequences, secure computation, privacy-preserving machine learning, cloud and data security, and fast cryptographic primitive and protocol implementations. He has co-designed five authenticated encryption algorithms and two hash functions that are submitted to the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization project.

Hosted by: Professor Jakub Szefer

Friday, November 1, 2019
17 Hillhouse Ave Room 233
10:00 AM