Dr. Carolyn Whitnall
BackgroundI am a research assistant in the Cryptography
group. My supervisor is Elisabeth Oswald. Contact
Department of Computer Science |
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Current work
I have recently completed my PhD, with a thesis entitled "Statistical methods for non-profiled differential side-channel analysis: Theory and evaluation". I am currently looking at statistical and machine learning methods for profiling cryptographic devices, and at meaningful ways of comparing such methods and translating their performance into security evaluations for physically implemented cryptography.
Publications
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Mutual Information Analysis Using a Fair Evaluation Framework
Carolyn Whitnall and Elisabeth Oswald
In: Advances in Cryptology, CRYPTO 2011, LNCS 6841, pages 316-334. Springer, August 2011.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2011/322).
A Fair Evaluation Framework for Comparing Side-Channel Distinguishers
Carolyn Whitnall and Elisabeth Oswald
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, volume 1(2), pages 145-160. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, August 2011.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2011/403).
An Exploration of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test as a Competitor to Mutual Information Analysis
Carolyn Whitnall, Elisabeth Oswald and Luke Mather
Proceedings of CARDIS 2011. LNCS 7079, pages 234-251. Springer, 2011.
A preliminary version of this paper is available from the Cryptology ePrint Archive:
Report 2011/380.
Recent (unpublished) work
The Myth of Generic DPA...and the Magic of Learning
Carolyn Whitnall, Elisabeth Oswald and Francois-Xavier Standaert
Cryptology ePrint Archive:Report 2012/038.
Other
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