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DAY 1: 5/23/19
DAY 1: 5/23/19
- Project started after meeting with Dr.Kim and Hwimin and we began reading on MQTT (how connect works) and TLS
- Created the abstract
- Worked on the website design and content
DAY 2: 5/24/19
DAY 2: 5/24/19
- Began reading about AES and SHA
- Created a presentation about TLS, AES, and SHA for Dr.Kim
- Continued reading about MQTT and TLS
DAY 3: 5/25/19
DAY 3: 5/25/19
- Continued reading about MQTT and TLS
DAY 4: 5/26/19
DAY 4: 5/26/19
- Continued reading about AES and SHA
DAY 5: 5/27/19
DAY 5: 5/27/19
- Started learning about general cryptography concepts (key derivation functions, keys, hash functions, nonces, ciphers, salt & pepper, etc.)
- Continued reading about AES and SHA
- Continued working on the presentation about TLS, AES, and SHA for Dr.Kim
DAY 6: 5/28/19
DAY 6: 5/28/19
- Finished presentation about TLS, AES, and SHA for Dr. Kim
DAY 7: 5/29/19
DAY 7: 5/29/19
- Presented to Dr. Kim about TLS, AES, and SHA
- Solidified project idea
- Created a brief schedule of what we will be doing each day
DAY 8: 5/30/19
DAY 8: 5/30/19
- Read MQTT documentation, videos, and articles
- Decided to use an open source MQTT implementation called HiveMQ and build on top of it
DAY 9: 5/31/19
DAY 9: 5/31/19
- Presented at the weekly group discussion
- Finished reading about MQTT CONNECT and CONNACK
- Set up a private GitHub respiratory
- Attempted to set up codebase in Eclipse
DAY 10: 6/1/19
DAY 10: 6/1/19
- Learned about terminal commands on YouTube and the git clone command
- Familiarized ourselves with using Git in Eclipse
- Continued troubleshooting codebase
- Started reading the codebase to understand how it works and discover appropriate places to implement our new code
DAY 11: 6/2/19
DAY 11: 6/2/19
- Successfully imported codebase as a Gradle project and fixed JAR errors
DAY 12: 6/3/19
DAY 12: 6/3/19
- Read the MQTT Client API and chose to use Blocking API, one of the 3 APIs in HiveMQ
- Created the MQTT client
- Added Hwimin as a collaborator to the GitHub repository
- Began implementation code for SHA-512
- Continued reading the codebase
DAY 13: 6/4/19
DAY 13: 6/4/19
- Created the MQTT client
- Created presentation slides about MQTT and SHA-512 for Dr. Kim
- Continued implementing code for SHA-512
- Continued reading the codebase
DAY 14: 6/5/19
DAY 14: 6/5/19
- Presented to Dr. Kim about MQTT
- Began reading about the mathematical operations and functions of SHA-3
- Decided to use the Apache 2.0 software license for our project
- Sucessfully implemented the connect() method and connected a client to our MQTT server
- Continued reading the codebase
DAY 15: 6/6/19
DAY 15: 6/6/19
- Continued reading about the mathematical operations and functions of SHA3-512
- Began writing code for SHA3-512
- Began implementing the publish and subscribe features of MQTT
- Continued reading the codebase
DAY 16: 6/7/19
DAY 16: 6/7/19
- Presented at the weekly group discussion
- Decided to make the client and broker two seperate Gradle projects
- Committed and pushed the first set of changes to GitHub
- Continued reading about the mathematical operations and functions of SHA3-512
- Continued writing code for SHA3-512
- Continued reading the codebase
DAY 17: 6/8/19
DAY 17: 6/8/19
- Learned more cybersecurity concepts (Dictionary & Rainbow Table Attacks)
- Continued writting code for publish and subscribe
DAY 18: 6/9/19
DAY 18: 6/9/19
- Continued writing code for publish and subscribe
- Learned how to use quality of service method properly
DAY 19: 6/10/19
DAY 19: 6/10/19
- Continued writing code for publish and subscribe
- Continued researching the mathematical operations and functions of SHA-3
DAY 20: 6/11/19
DAY 20: 6/11/19
- Continued writing code for publish and subscribe
- Created presentation slides for Dr. Kim
- Continued researching the mathematical operations and functions of SHA-3
- Decided to use the built-in java class for hashing for now since the math is confusing
DAY 21: 6/12/19
DAY 21: 6/12/19
- Presented to Dr. Kim and Hwimin
- Started reading about Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellmann (ECDH)
- Continued writing code for publish and subscribe using multithreading
DAY 22: 6/13/19
DAY 22: 6/13/19
- Started reading about Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (ECC)
- Finished writing code for publish and subscribe using multithreading
- Worked on adding timer to multithreading programs
DAY 23: 6/14/19
DAY 23: 6/14/19
- Presented at the weekly group discussion
- Continued reading about Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (ECC) and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH)
- Updated HiveMQ Client to the newest version and used new ConnectionListener feature of the API
- Worked on adding timer to multithreading programs
- Discussed abstract with Dr. Kim and Hwimin and made appropriate changes
DAY 24: 6/15/19
DAY 24: 6/15/19
- Continued learning about ECC and ECDH
DAY 25: 6/16/19
DAY 25: 6/16/19
- Worked on adding timer to multithreading programs
- Created presentation slides for Dr. Kim and for the midterm presentation
- Continued learning about ECC and ECDH
DAY 26: 6/17/19
DAY 26: 6/17/19
- Continued working on presentation slides for Dr. Kim and for the midterm presentation
- Continued learning about and started implementation of ECC and ECDH
- Sucessfully implemented a timer
DAY 27: 6/18/19
DAY 27: 6/18/19
- Finished presentation slides for Dr. Kim
- Continued working on presentation slides for the midterm presentation
- Continued learning about and implementing ECC and ECDH
- Worked on adding statistics (timing of messages between clients) to the multithreaded program
- Fixed a bug in the timer
DAY 28: 6/19/19
DAY 28: 6/19/19
- Presented presentation slides for Dr. Kim
- Fixed presentation slides for part 2 of presentation to Dr. Kim tomorrow
- Continued working on presentation slides for the midterm presentation
- Continued learning about and implementing ECC and ECDH
DAY 29: 6/20/19
DAY 29: 6/20/19
- Presented presentation slides for part 2 of presentation to Dr. Kim
- Finished presentation slides for the midterm presentation
- Continued learning about and implementing ECC and ECDH
- Implemented and tested code for point addition and scalar multiplication
DAY 30: 6/21/19
DAY 30: 6/21/19
- Presented at the weekly group discussion
- Finished implementing ECDH
- Looked into how HiveMQ handles securtiy
- Added date and time information when a client connects
DAY 31: 6/23/19
DAY 31: 6/23/19
- Finished abstract for Mid-Sure registration
- Registered for Mid-Sure
DAY 32: 6/24/19
DAY 32: 6/24/19
- Worked on refactoring ECDH code
- Looked into how HiveMQ handles security
- Started learning about Java key stores and trust stores
- Learned more about TLS (agreeing on cipher suite for communication & affect of on CPU)
DAY 33: 6/25/19
DAY 33: 6/25/19
- Added client authentication to server with a username and password
- Finished refactoring, testing and adding comments to ECDH code
- Created presentation slides for Dr. Kim
DAY 34: 6/26/19
DAY 34: 6/26/19
- Presented to Dr. Kim and Hwimin
- Made changes to presentation slides based on feedback from Dr. Kim and Hwimin
- Started reading about AES
- Started configuring the TLS server
DAY 35: 6/27/19
DAY 35: 6/27/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Began implementing AES 128
DAY 36: 6/28/19
DAY 36: 6/28/19
- Improved time of message delivery by putting received message in a text file instead of printing to the console with System.out.println()
- Continued implementing AES 128
DAY 37: 6/30/19
DAY 37: 6/30/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
DAY 38: 7/1/19
DAY 38: 7/1/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Continued implementing AES 128
DAY 39: 7/2/19
DAY 39: 7/2/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Continued reading more about and implementing AES 128
DAY 40: 7/3/19
DAY 40: 7/3/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Continued reading more about and implementing AES 128
- Created presentation slides for Dr. Kim
DAY 41: 7/5/19
DAY 41: 7/5/19
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Updated project to Java 12
- Started reading research papers
- Continued reading more about and implementing AES 128
DAY 42: 7/6/19
DAY 42: 7/6/19
- Continued reading research papers
- Continued configuring the TLS server
DAY 43: 7/8/19
DAY 43: 7/8/19
- Continued reading about and implementing AES 128
- Continued configuring the TLS server
- Submitted a bug report for HiveMQ Community Edition on GitHub about TLS 1.3
DAY 44: 7/9/19
DAY 44: 7/9/19
- Completed and tested encryption part of AES
- Started working on decryption part of AES
- Continued working on the presentation for Dr. Kim
DAY 45: 7/10/19
DAY 45: 7/10/19
- Completed decryption part of AES, need to do bug fixing since output from encryption and decryption are not the same
- Finished presentation slides for Dr. Kim
DAY 46: 7/11/19
DAY 46: 7/11/19
- Presented slides about MQTT & AES presentation to Dr. Kim
- Refactored HiveMQ code
- Added more comments to code
- Continued debugging AES code, started refactoring code to isolate issue
DAY 47: 7/12/19
DAY 47: 7/12/19
- Presented at the weekly group discussion
- Wrote official documentation for all of our HiveMQ code using Java Docs
- Continued debugging and refactoring AES code
- Started reading related works for the related works section of the research paper
DAY 48: 7/13/19
DAY 48: 7/13/19
- Continued reading related works for the related works section of the research paper
- Started writing related works section of research paper
- Hwimin fixed AES code so it works properly now
DAY 49: 7/14/19
DAY 49: 7/14/19
- Continued reading related works for the related works section of the research paper
- Continued writing related works section of research paper
- Hwimin made the AES code CBC and added initialization vectors (IVs)
DAY 50: 7/15/19
DAY 50: 7/15/19
- Finished rough draft for related works section of research paper
- Started writing background section of research paper
- Continued writting documentation for codebase using Javadocs
DAY 51: 7/16/19
DAY 51: 7/16/19
- Continued writing background section of research paper
- Finished writting documentation for codebase using Javadocs
- Organized files for the project and wrote up a guide on how to use it
- Upload final project to GitHub and shared with the team
DAY 52: 7/17/19
DAY 52: 7/17/19
- Met with Dr. Kim to discuss research paper writing techniques
- Met with Hwimin to download MiKTeX and TexStudio to use LaTeX
- Started configuring testing environment
- Began working on research poster for Mid-Sure
DAY 53: 7/18/19
DAY 53: 7/18/19
- Finished configuring testing environment
- Started testing
- Continued working on research poster for Mid-Sure
DAY 54: 7/19/19
DAY 54: 7/19/19
- Continued testing
- Finished research poster for Mid-Sure
DAY 55: 7/21/19
DAY 55: 7/21/19
- Continued testing
DAY 56: 7/22/19
DAY 56: 7/22/19
- Continued testing
- Finished rough draft for background and related works sections of research paper
- Revised the problem statement
- Updated the website timeline
DAY 57: 7/23/19
DAY 57: 7/23/19
- Started writing approach section of the research paper
- Continued testing
DAY 58: 7/24/19
DAY 58: 7/24/19
- Presented poster at Mid-Sure
- Created a template for the results section of the research paper
- Created an outline for the introduction section of the research paper
- Started writing conclusion section of the research paper
DAY 59: 7/25/19
DAY 59: 7/25/19
- Created pseudocode for AES-384 in LaTex
- Finished writing introduction section of the research paper
- Continued testing and gathering results into a spreadsheet
- Met with Dr. Fu and Dr. Ali for a dicussion about graduate study
DAY 60: 7/26/19
DAY 60: 7/26/19
- Finished rough draft of research paper
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