Papers and Preprints

last-updated-22-Feb-2013

My research interests include:

• Computer Security
• Applied Cryptography

Some of my papers and preprints are below. If there is a particular paper you would like access to, then please send me an email; alternately, if you know the square root of two, then you can try to fix this broken link.

• A Tutorial on White-box AES
Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications, Mathematics in Industry 18 (2013), 209-229. [MII 18]
An updated/extended version is available: [pdf] (22 Feb 2013)
Note: some pdf viewers do not render the grey shading used in some of my diagrams correctly. If you see solid black boxes, then try another pdf viewer.


• Internet Geolocation: Evasion and Counter-evasion (with P.C. van Oorschot)
ACM Computing Surveys 42:1 (2009), 23 pages. [ACMCSUR 42:1]


• Unbalanced Digit Sets and the Closest Choice Strategy for Minimal Weight Integer Representations (with C. Heuberger)
Designs, Codes and Cryptography 52:2 (2009), 185-208. [DCC 52:2]


• Minimal Weight and Colexicographically Minimal Integer Representations (with C. Heuberger)
Journal of Mathematical Cryptology 1:4 (2007), 297-328. [JMC 1:4]


• A Simple Left-to-Right Algorithm for Minimal Weight Signed Radix-r Representations
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53:3 (2007), 1234-1241. [IEEE-TOIT 53:3]


• Seifert's RSA Fault Attack:  Simplified Analysis and Generalizations
ICICS 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4307 (2006), 420-434. [LNCS 4307]
(International Conference on Information and Communications Security 2006)


• Internet Geolocation and Evasion (with P.C. van Oorschot)
Technical Report TR-06-05, School of Computer Science, Carleton University [ps] [pdf] (8 April 2006)


• On the Low Hamming Weight Discrete Log Problem for Nonadjacent Representations (with D.R. Stinson)
Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing 16:6 (2006), 461-472. [AAECC 16:6]


• Minimality and Other Properties of the Width-w Nonadjacent Form (with D.R. Stinson)
Mathematics of Computation 75:253 (2006), 369-384. [MCOM 75:253]


• Alternative Digit Sets for Nonadjacent Representations (extended version) (with D.R. Stinson)
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 19:1 (2005), 165-191. [SIDMA 19:1]


• New Minimal Weight Representations for Left-to-Right Window Methods (with D.R. Stinson)
CT-RSA 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3376 (2005), 366-383. [LNCS 3376]
(Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2005)


• Efficient Integer Representations for Cryptographic Operations
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Waterloo [ps.gz] [pdf] (20 Dec 2004)


• Alternative Digit Sets for Nonadjacent Representations (with D.R. Stinson)
SAC 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3006 (2004), 306-319. [LNCS 3006]
(Selected Areas in Cryptography 2003)


• Techniques of Side Channel Cryptanalysis
Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo [ps.gz] [pdf] (May 2001; click here for more information)

Here are some more informal notes:

• German Tor nodes seized -- Wo ist meine Zwiebel Router?
  On the Identity Trail: blog (11 September 2006)
  
  
• Escaping your history -- the challenge of separating your identity from your Google searches
On the Identity Trail: ID trail mix blog (15 March 2006)


• Web Readable User/Browser Forensics
companion web page for "Escaping your history" (14 March 2006)


• A Solution to Knuth's TALG Brain Teaser [ps] [pdf] (30 Sep 2005)

And if you are interested in the Kubuntu Linux Distribution, then you might also be interested in the following:

• Modifying the Kubuntu 6.06 LiveCD to Support VIA's vt8251 Southbridge (9 July 2006)
  see readme.txt