Department of
Computer Science
 

Dr. Carolyn Whitnall

Background

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Cryptography group. My supervisor is Elisabeth Oswald.

Contact

Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Merchant Venturers Building, Room 3.37
Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1UB
United Kingdom

E-mail: carolyn(dot)whitnall at bristol(dot)ac(dot)uk

Current work

I completed my PhD in 2012, with a thesis entitled "Statistical methods for non-profiled differential side-channel analysis: Theory and evaluation". I continue to investigate topics related to DPA, including (so-called) 'generic' methodologies, device profiling and power models, applications of machine learning methods, applications of high performance computing, and new approaches to 'multivariate' leakage exploitation.

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 IACR 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 IACR 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 IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2011/380).

Choosing Distinguishers for Differential Power Analysis Attacks
Elisabeth Oswald, Luke Mather and Carolyn Whitnall
NIST Non-Invasive Attack Testing Workshop (NIAT), September 2011.

Masking Tables -- An Underestimated Security Risk
Michael Tunstall, Carolyn Whitnall and Elisabeth Oswald
Proceedings of Fast Software Encryption 2013. LNCS 8424, pages 425-444. Springer, 2013.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/735).

Profiling DPA: Efficacy and efficiency trade-offs
Carolyn Whitnall and Elisabeth Oswald
Proceedings of CHES 2013. LNCS 8086, pages 37-54. Springer, 2013.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/353).

The Myth of Generic DPA...and the Magic of Learning
Carolyn Whitnall, Elisabeth Oswald and François-Xavier Standaert
Proceedings of CT-RSA 2014. LNCS 8366, pages 183-205. Springer, 2014.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2012/256).

Multi-target DPA attacks: Pushing DPA beyond the limits of a desktop computer
Luke Mather, Elisabeth Oswald and Carolyn Whitnall
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2014. LNCS 8873, pages 243–261. Springer 2014.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2014/365).

Reliable Information Extraction for Single Trace Attacks
Valentina Banciu, Elisabeth Oswald, Carolyn Whitnall
Proceedings of DATE 2015 (to appear).
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/045).

Exploring the Resilience of Some Lightweight Ciphers Against Profiled Single Trace Attacks
Valentina Banciu, Elisabeth Oswald, Carolyn Whitnall
Proceedings of COSADE 2015 (to appear).
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/161).

Robust Profiling for DPA-Style Attacks
Carolyn Whitnall and Elisabeth Oswald
Proceedings of CHES 2015. LNCS 9293, pages 3-21. Springer, 2015.
(A preliminary version of this paper is available from the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/527).

Lightweight cryptographic verse

The Rime of the Apple Customer (because the most realistic threat models are not always the most sophisticated...)

A villanelle from the program chairs...

Byron's issue with computer science...

What happens when I'm asked to give a presentation...

On the felicitous occasion of the long anticipated re-adornment of the common room...

Other

Here's where I sometimes write about other stuff! Including Snowden's revelations and Bitcoin.

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