Dr. Koray Karabina

Education

• Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 2010

Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of design of new cryptographic primitives and algorithms, efficient implementation, and cryptanalysis.
More specifically, I work on:

• Finite fields: Efficient arithmetic, compact representations, Groebner basis computations.
• Curve based cryptography: Elliptic and hyperelliptic curves, efficient arithmetic, pairings, discrete logarithm problem.
• Cryptographic protocols: Side channel analysis, private biometrics, secure multi-party computation.

Recent Publications

• Revisiting the false acceptance rate attack on biometric visual cryptographic schemes (with A. Robinson),
  Accepted: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Theoretic Security - ICITS 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10015 (2016), 1-14. 
  Preprint

• A new cryptographic primitive for noise tolerant template security (with O. Canpolat), Pattern Recognition Letters, 80 (2016), 70-75.
  
  
• Efficient algorithms and architectures for double point multiplication on elliptic curves (with R. Azarderakhsh), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Cryptography and Security in Computing Systems - CS2 2016, ISBN 978-1-4503-4065-6 (2016), 25-30.

 

• Point decomposition problem in binary elliptic curves,Eighteenth International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9558 (2016), 155-168.

• Fault attacks on pairing-based protocols revisited (with S. Chatterjee and A. Menezes)  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64 (2015), 1707-1714.

 

• Full list of publications: http://math.fau.edu/~kkarabina/research.html

Personal Website

           http://brain.math.fau.edu/~kkarabina/

Scholarly Activities

 The Department of Mathematical Sciences at FAU offers a series of events including American Mathematics Competition (AMC), Math Days, and Math Circles. These events are designed to inspire local elementary, middle, and high school students to pursue careers in mathematics. I am currently serving in the organizing committee of the Gold Coast Math Teachers' Circle (GCMTC) at FAU. GCMTC is the only active Math Teachers' Circle in Florida. 

• Organizing committee member: Gold Coast Math Teachers' Circle, Florida Atlantic University, 2014.
  • Resources: Solving Puzzles Provably and Crypto Games

• Keynote speaker: The World of Cryptography, Middle School Mathematics Day (AMC8), Florida Atlantic University, 2013.
  • Slides: The World of Cryptography

 

Dr. Karabina works with children on National Pi-Day!