Browsing by Author "Rahnama, Behnam"

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    Energizing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for Better Performance
    (International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research., 2016-04) Sari, Arif; Rahnama, Behnam; Eweoya, Ibukun; Agdelen, Zafer
    Security is a never ending challenge. The security researchers must be steps ahead to avoid attacks and threats, thereby keeping businesses running and avoiding calamities. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is to this rescue after its official acceptance and recommendation by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001. However, timing attacks have called for a modification to it to retain its potency and effectiveness. This research boosts the Rijndael by incorporating an invented playfair ciphering into the algorithm using 256 ASCII codes. The concept counters possible leakages from the S-box lookups from the cache. The research introduces mixcolumn in the last round against the standard to make it a constant time algorithm. The encryption and decryption were validated. Previous researches implemented Architectural and operating system modifications, placing all the lookup tables in CPU registers, Parallel Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation , Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementation, the Dynamic Cache Flushing Algorithm but none keeps AES assets of good speed and memory conservation; most especially in embedded systems.
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    Energizing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for Better Performance
    (International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 2016-04) Sari, Arif; Rahnama, Behnam; Eweoya, Ibukun; Zafer Agdelen4; Agdelen, Zafer
    Security is a never ending challenge. The security researchers must be steps ahead to avoid attacks and threats, thereby keeping businesses running and avoiding calamities. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is to this rescue after its official acceptance and recommendation by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001. However, timing attacks have called for a modification to it to retain its potency and effectiveness. This research boosts the Rijndael by incorporating an invented playfair ciphering into the algorithm using 256 ASCII codes. The concept counters possible leakages from the S-box lookups from the cache. The research introduces mixcolumn in the last round against the standard to make it a constant time algorithm. The encryption and decryption were validated. Previous researches implemented Architectural and operating system modifications, placing all the lookup tables in CPU registers, Parallel Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation , Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementation, the Dynamic Cache Flushing Algorithm but none keeps AES assets of good speed and memory conservation; most especially in embedded systems.
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    Fine tuning the advanced encryption standard (AES)
    (SIN '12: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, 2012-10) Rahnama, Behnam; Elci, Atilla; Eweoya, Ibukun
    The Advanced Encryption Standard has been playing a prominent role in embedded systems security for a decade after being announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). However, vulnerabilities have emerged, especially timing attacks, that challenges its security. This paper demonstrates the introduction of a unique diffusion and confusion scheme in Rijndael by incorporating ASCII codes manipulations using playfair ciphering into the algorithm; it is not dependent on the key and input thereby making it a constant time module in AES algorithm. The concept counters possible leakages from the S-box lookups; intermediary operations (SubstituteByte, ShiftRows, MixColumns, AddRoundKey) of the AES are still applicable but it becomes impossible for cryptanalysis discovery of enciphering method and ciphertext bits. Success of cracking efforts will be beyond human patience as it avoids statistical precision, thereby curbing timing attacks.