Timeline

Week 1 (5/20/19 - 5/26/19)

• 3 day orientation training (research expectations, research quizes, surveys, introductions to faculty and projects)
• Received project in the IoT and began working on research
• Familirize ourselves with cybersecurity concepts (symmetric/asymmetric encryption, ciphers, nonces, hashing, key derivation functions (KDFs), key exchange, salt/pepper)

Week 2 (5/27/19 - 6/2/19)

• Learn about MQTT 5 by reading official specifications
• Finalize plans and project direction
• Familrize ourselves with more cybersecurity concepts

Week 3 (6/3/19 - 6/9/19)

• Implement MQTT using HiveMQ open source code
• Implement SHA-512

Week 4 (6/10/19 - 6/16/19)

• Implement MQTT publish and subscribe with multithreading
• Attempt to implement SHA without using a built-in class

Week 5 (6/17/19 - 6/23/19)

• Use SHA built-in class instead of our custom implementation
• Implement MQTT publish and subscribe with multithreading
• Start implementing ECDH

Week 6 (6/23/19 - 6/29/19)

• Work on implementing timer for MQTT code
• Finish implementing ECDH
• Read about AES
• Begin implementing AES 128

Week 7 (6/30/19 - 7/6/19)

• Read about AES
• Finish implementing AES 128
• Implement AES 256
• Change project direction from encryption using AES 384 with TLS (implied) to AES 384 payload encryption vs TLS

Week 8 (7/7/19 - 7/13/19)

• Read related work about MQTT security via payload encryption
• Finish implementing AES 256 and AES 384
• Add AES 384 to HiveMQ

Week 9 (7/14/19 - 7/20/19)

• Begin working on poster for Mid-Sure
• Write research paper
• Continue finalizing the code
• Read more related works
• Compare the performance of AES 128/256 with SHA 256/384 and AES 384 with SHA 512

Week 10 (7/21/19 - 7/24/19)

• Finalize code on GitHub
• Finish writing research paper
• Finish poster for Mid-Sure