Learned about various techniques to improve research paper comprehension, writing, and reading as well as different aspects/careers in research

Both RCR training and project selection have concluded

An outline was finished for our project website

Attended Mr. Kim's presentation on graduate research

Read/skimmed the chapters 5,11,13 on Traditional Cryptography

• Different types of finite fields, hash functions, projective/affine space

Reread/took notes on what was chapter 1 and chapter 3 and 4 of the assigned Cryptography textbook (block ciphers/modes)

Read partway through the introduction of the lightweight cryptography paper

Attended morning meeting session to socialize with peers

Read through chapters 3 and 8 of Intro to Cryptography and chapters 5 and 6 of Cryptography

• DES, AES(Rijndael), block ciphers(modes), stream ciphers, RSA

• The finite field material is still fairly confusing, but I believe I am starting to understand more about these protocols

Read Dr. Sen's suggested articles on asymmetric and symmetric encryption

Completed half of the Week 2 slideshow with Saman (intend to reconvene and finish it Friday)

Updated website's abstract and about us section

Attended group presentations

Attended post-group-presentation meeting with Dr. Sen

Reread chapter 8 and chapter 11 of Intro to Crypto and chapters 5, 6, and 8 of Cryptography

First full skim through of the Lightweight Cryptography paper

Followed Dami's instruction to setup MongoDB Community

• The connection ran smoothly and was able to establish a connection with the framework

Meet with Saman

• Discussed individual sections of the paper (My sections were related to Block ciphers, DAE schemes, and MACs)

• Confirmed/determined the lightweight cryptography categories the paper was attempting to establish

  • Ultra lightweight

  • Ubiquitous

• Based on my sections, I chose 3 lightweight protocols from each that best fit the constraints of our domain

  • i.e. Mysterion, Ascon, SEA, Helix , etc.

Started week 3 slides

Week 3 presentations

Looked up papers specific to protocols in the lightweight cryptography paper

• i.e. Ascon, Helix, etc.

Meet with Dr. Sen to discuss presentation and future directions for the week

• Reprioritized list of useable ciphers based on ease of implementation and functionality (Just created the new list)

• Familiarized myself with the old Java-based framework

  • Read about a fourth of the IoTServiceRecommendation java file from top to bottom

Fully read through the Java framework code

• Wrote questions I had for Dami

• Didn't understand why portions were commented out, but I understood the whole device node concept

Completely finished google sheet of possible lightweight algorithms to consider

• Dami suggested descriptions for each and clarified the parameters of our search(will be added Thursday or Friday at the latest)

Met with Dami to discuss the flow of the Java-based framework and where they hope to take it in the future

Recreated a usable version of Dr.Sen's diagram from "A Secure User-Centric Framework for Dynamic Service Provisioning in IoT Environments"

Installed and replaced the .java files Dami sent for the genetic algorithm simulator

Reviewed the list of usable protocols, functionality of the genetic algorithm simulator, and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) for our presentation on June 14

Applied for Mid-SURE symposium

Meet with Saman regarding our shortlist and how to approach the interconnectivity of our shortlisted protocols

Studied the genetic algorithm simulator (I feel like I have a fairly good understanding of the code aside from the section related to network selection)

Researched more papers related to our shortlisted protocols

• Ensure our shortlist is the optimal choice given the knowledge we have researched

With Saman, I created a comprehensive Google Doc to help consolidate all of our thoughts, research, questions, final shortlist (including pro's and con's)

Read through machine learning algorithm to try and understand myself

Brainstormed user preference quantification/methodology

Met with Saman to create Midterm presentation slides

• Created outline and intend to nearly finish the slideshow before our meeting with Dr. Sen Friday

Midterm presentation

• Showcased our shortlist of protocols, initial structure for the security preference selection model

• Presented plans moving forward (implementation of standalone protocols, functionality with the ML simulator, integration into CupCarbon simulator)

Met with Saman to refine our proposed security preference model

Met with Dami to work out issues with Anaconda installation

Met with Saman

• Updated each other on protocol implementation progress

• Discussed security preference selection structure and how our protocols would tie into that

Met with Dami

• Got presentation feedback

• Helped with package management/download of the Tensor Flow environment and Saman with installation of the machine learning simulator

• Received CupCarbon simulator to download before Sunday

Met with Saman

• Compiled a comprehensive test to assess decryption and encryption time for Trivium

  • Also took some notes from Saman's code/the creator of pyascon to measure package sizes pre-and post-encryption

• Worked on week 6 presentation

• Discussed other methods/protocols for implementation as well as what to do with the block cipher, PRESENT

Familiarized myself with the CupCarbon simulator code

• Attempted to install the program; however I ran into to problems that we'll meet with Dami on Sunday to discuss

Familiarized myself with CupCarbon environment and it's capabilities

• Did not learn too much. Saman and myself plan to meet with Dami for clarification

Reworked Present algorithm but I just decided to drop it since it was too much of a hassle for our timeframe

• Tried different methods of encoding (to get as similar to the code from Python 2)

• In total, read numerous pages of Python documentation on python 2 encoding and decoding

Revisited Present algorithm and got it to run in Python 3!!!

• Checked to see any deprecation in encryption/decryption speed, but there was only minimal

Reconfigured test code for Trivium help with traditional cryptography comparison

Rescheduled meeting with Dr. Sen and Dami to meet on Tuesday July 6th

Met with Saman to create graphical representation of the encryption/decryption speeds for week 7 presentation (moved to Thursday, July 8th)

Met with Dr. Sen, Dami, and Saman

• CupCarbon functionality walkthrough from Dr. Sen as well as step by step explanation of the overall functionality

• Discussed plans moving forward as well the goals/timetable for the coming week

  • Create protocol documentation for users

  • Change CupCarbon UI to fit the needs of our project

  • Implement the protocol's libraries into the CupCarbon simulator

Tried to run CupCarbon on my computer

Gave our week 7 presentation

Met with Dami and Saman to discuss issues with the CupCarbon simulator

• Determined how to change the UI of CupCarbon to suit our updated user security selection model

  • Added Minimum, Regular, Strong, and Extra Strong options

Used Saman's instructions to get my CupCarbon simulator running

Messed with the CupCarbon simulator

• Attempted to get the simulation to run properly

• Current issues:

  • User parameters aren't visibly updating in MongoDB (unsure if they are updating at all)

  • Simulation parameters are not visibly updating in MongoDB (are updated in the backend)

Brainstormed the final draft of the user's security selection model, highlighting the technical specifics of each security level

Met with Dami and Saman

• Discussed issues we shared with the CupCarbon simulator. Attempted to resolve them together; however we were only able to fix one

• Compared our CupCarbon-master with Dami's as she was having difficulty installing it onto her new computer

• Dami provided a thorough explanation of Overleaf and how we will use it for our project report

Changed CupCarbon user interface to match our updated user security selection model

• Minimum, Regular, Strong, and Extra Strong Security

Continued to search for buffer with the .java files

Researched and determined that Jython would be the best method to integrate our python implementations into CupCarbon's java-based framework

Installed Jython; however I am currently having difficulties with importing the class/methods into CupCarbon

Met with Dr. Sen, Dami, and Saman

• Reworked our plan for the last week of the program

Moving forward:

• Look through the senscript's abstraction and attempt to locate the buffer through there

• Integrate the protocol(s) into CupCarbon (either using Jython or finding an existing Java implementations of our protocols)

• Create protocol-specific encryption/decryption commands to be used for the senscript

• Inject our commands before/after the aforementioned buffer and record the time of encryption and decryption

Once again, attempted to mock up test code for Jython before using it for protocol implementation

Continued work with Jython, predominantly worked with the senscript commands

• Read documentation, watched guides on implementation and utilization, and tried numerous different methods to get Jython working/create functioning senscript commands

Met with Dami

• Updated her on our protocol implementation progress

• Asked questions regarding our report and poster presentation

  • She sent her example posters from past conferences for us to use

• Predominantly a working meeting (she assisted in finding more information on the .csc files and the language used for data abstraction)

Finalized first draft of OU Conference poster and presentation

Met with Dr. Sen to finalize poster and presentation