Publications by Muhammed Fatih Balli

Melting SNOW-V: improved lightweight architectures

Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

SNOW-V is a stream cipher proposed by Ekdahl et al. at IACR ToSC 2019(3) with an objective to be deployed as the encryption primitive in 5G systems. The stream cipher offers 256-bit security and is ready for deployment in the post-quantum era, in which as ...

2022

Complete Practical Side-Channel-Assisted Reverse Engineering of AES-Like Ciphers

Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

Public knowledge about the structure of a cryptographic system is a standard assumption in the literature and algorithms are expected to guarantee security in a setting where only the encryption key is kept secret. Nevertheless, undisclosed proprietary cry ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Six shades lighter: a bit-serial implementation of the AES family

Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik, Sergio Roldán Lombardía

Recently, cryptographic literature has seen new block cipher designs such as PRESENT, GIFT or SKINNY that aim to be more lightweight than the current standard, i.e., AES. Even though AES family of block ciphers were designed two decades ago, they still rem ...

2021

A Deeper Look at the Energy Consumption of Lightweight Block Ciphers

Francesco Regazzoni, Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

In the last few years, the field of lightweight cryptography has seen an influx in the number of block ciphers and hash functions being proposed. In the past there have been numerous papers that have looked at circuit level implementation of block ciphers ...

IEEE2021

Serial Lightweight Implementation Techniques for Block Ciphers

Muhammed Fatih Balli

Most of the cryptographic protocols that we use frequently on the internet are designed in a fashion that they are not necessarily suitable to run in constrained environments. Applications that run on limited-battery, with low computational power, or area ...

EPFL2021

Swap and Rotate: Lightweight Linear Layers for SPN-based Blockciphers

Serge Vaudenay, Francesco Regazzoni, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

In CHES 2017, Jean et al. presented a paper on "Bit-Sliding" in which the authors proposed lightweight constructions for SPN based block ciphers like AES, PRESENT and SKINNY. The main idea behind these constructions was to reduce the length of the datapath ...

2020

Energy Analysis of Lightweight AEAD Circuits

Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

The selection criteria for NIST's Lightweight Crypto Standardization (LWC) have been slowly shifting towards the lightweight efficiency of designs, given that a large number of candidates already establish their security claims on conservative, well-studie ...

2020

The Area-Latency Symbiosis: Towards Improved Serial Encryption Circuits

Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

The bit-sliding paper of Jean et al. (CHES 2017) showed that the smallest-size circuit for SPN based block ciphers such as AES, SKINNY and PRESENT can be achieved via bit-serial implementations. Their technique decreases the bit size of the datapath and na ...

2020

Determining the Core Primitive for Optimally Secure Ratcheting

Serge Vaudenay, Muhammed Fatih Balli

After ratcheting attracted attention mostly due to practical real-world protocols, recently a line of work studied ratcheting as a primitive from a theoretic point of view. Literature in this line, pursuing the strongest security of ratcheting one can hope ...

2020

BioID: a Privacy-Friendly Identity Document

Serge Vaudenay, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a suite of protocols so that a small tamper-resistant device can be used as a biometric identity document which can be scanned by authorized terminals. We target both strongly secure identification and strong privacy. Unlike biometric passports, ...

Springer2019

Exploring Lightweight Efficiency of Forkaes

Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

Recently the ForkAES construction was proposed by Andreeva et al. for efficiently performing authenticated encryption of very short messages on next generation IoT devices. The ForkAES tweakable block cipher uses around one and a half AES encryption calls ...

Springer2019

Six Shades of AES

Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

Recently there have been various attempts to construct light weight implementations of the AES-128 encryption and combined encryption/ decryption circuits. However no known lightweight circuit exists forAES-192 and AES-256, the variants of AES that use lon ...

2019

Distributed Multi-Unit Privacy Assured Bidding (PAB) for Smart Grid Demand Response Programs

Muhammed Fatih Balli

The stringent requirement of the demand-supply equilibrium for delivering electricity has traditionally been dealt with a supply-side perspective, assuming that the demand is not alterable. With the promises of the Smart Grid, demand- side management techn ...

2018