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2024

• Dilip Sau, Sumanta Sarkar, Dhiman Saha and Kalikinkar Mandal. Know-Thy-Basis: Decomposing F_{2^6} for Lightweight S-box Implementation, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2024, Issue 4, Halifax, Canada, 2024
• Guang Gong and Kalikinkar Mandal. Filtering Modified de Bruijn Sequences with Designated Linear Complexity, SEquences and Their Applications (SETA), Colchester, UK, 2024.

2023

• Nusa Zidaric, Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong and Mark Aagaard. The Welch-Gong Stream Cipher - Evolutionary Path, Cryptography and Communication (CCDS), 2023.

2022

• Vishnu Dasu, Sumanta Sarkar, and Kalikinkar Mandal, PROV-FL: Privacy-preserving Round Optimal Verifiable Federated Learning, 15th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec 2022), Pages 33-44, Los Angeles, USA, 2022
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Practical Single-pass Oblivious Aggregation and Billing Computation Protocols for Smart Meters, International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security (CANS 2022), LNCS, Volume, 13641, Pages 279-291, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2022.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Cryptographic Pseudorandom Noise Generators for Lattice-based Cryptography and Differential Privacy, 10th International Workshop on Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications (IWSDA 2022), Colchester, UK, August 1-5, 2022 (virtual).

2021

• Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong. Homomorphic Evaluation of Lightweight Cipher Boolean Circuits, the 14th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2021), LNCS, Volume 13291, Pages 63-74, 2021
• Yunjie Yi, Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong. Implementation of Lightweight Ciphers and Their Integration into Entity Authentication with IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer Transmission, the 14th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2021), LNCS, Volume 13291, Pages 113-129, 2021
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Dhiman Saha, Sumanta Sarkar, Yosuke Todo. Sycon: A New Milestone in Designing ASCON-like Permutations, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 12, Pages 305-327, 2021

2020

• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. On Ideal t-Tuple Distribution of Orthogonal Functions in Filtering de Bruijn Generators, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 597-619, 2020.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Can LWC and PEC be Friends?: Evaluating Lightweight Ciphers in Privacy-enhancing Cryptography, NIST Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2020, Gaithersburg, United States, 2020.
• Yunsi Fei, Guang Gong, Cheng Gongye, Kalikinkar Mandal, Raghvendra Rohit, Tianhong Xu, Yunjie Yi and Nusa Zidaric. Correlation Power Analysis and Higher-order Masking Implementation of WAGE, Selected Areas in Cryptography 2020, Halifax, Canada, 2020.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Bo Yang, Guang Gong, and Mark Aagaard. Analysis and Efficient Implementations of a Class of Composited De Bruijn Sequences, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020.
• Riham AlTawy, Guang Gong, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Raghvendra Rohit. WAGE: An Authenticated Encryption with a Twist, the IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (ToSC), Special Issue on Designs for the NIST Lightweight Standardisation Process, Athens, Greece, March 22 - 26, 2020.

2019

• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. PrivFL: Practical Privacy-preserving Federated Regressions on High-dimensional Data over Mobile Networks, Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW 2019), Pages 57-68, London, UK, November 2019.
• Sumanta Sarkar, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Dhiman Saha. On the Relationship between Resilient Boolean Functions and Linear Branch Number of S-boxes, the 20th International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2019), LNCS, Volume 11898, Pages 361-374, Hyderabad, India, December 2019.
• Yunjie Yi, Guang Gong, and Kalikinkar Mandal. Implementation of Three LWC Schemes in the WiFi 4-way Handshake with Software Defined Radio, the 3rd Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2019, Gaithersburg, USA, November 4-6, 2019.

  2018

• Riham Altawy, Raghvendra Rohit, Morgan He, Kalikinkar Mandal, Gangqiang Yang and Guang Gong. sLiSCP-light: Towards Lighter Sponge-specific Cryptographic Permutations, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 1539-9087, 2018.
• Riham Altawy, Raghvendra Rohit, Morgan He, Kalikinkar Mandal, Gangqiang Yang and Guang Gong. Towards a Cryptographic Minimal Design: The sLiSCP Family of Permutations, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 67, Issue 9, Pages 1341-1358, 2018.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Bo Yang, Guang Gong, and Mark Aagaard. On Ideal t-Tuple Distribution of Filtering de Bruijn Sequence Generators, Cryptography and Communications, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 629-641, 2018.

2017

• Bo Yang, Kalikinkar Mandal, Mark Aagaard, and Guang Gong. Efficient Composited de Bruijn Sequence Generators, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 66, Issue 8, Pages 1354-1368, 2017.
• Riham Altawy, Raghvendra Rohit, Morgan He, Kalikinkar Mandal, Gangqiang Yang and Guang Gong. sLiSCP: Simeck-based Permutations for Lightweight Sponge Cryptographic Primitives, Selected Areas in Cryptography 2017, August 2017. Slides.
• Teng Wu, Yin Tan, Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. On the Multi-Output Filtering Model and Its Applications, in 2nd International Conference on Codes, Cryptology and Information Security (C2SI), April 2017.

2016

• Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan, and Guang Gong. Design and Implementation of Warbler Family of Lightweight Pseudorandom Number Generators for Smart Devices, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 15, No. 1, Pages 1-28, 2016.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Feedback Reconstruction and Implementations of Pseudorandom Number Generators from Composited De Bruijn Sequences, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 9, Pages 2725-2738, 2016.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Basel Alomair and Radha Poovendran. Secure Error-Tolerant Graph Matching Protocols, in 15th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), November 2016.
• Moreno Ambrosin, Hossein Hosseini, Kalikinkar Mandal, Mauro Conti, and Radha Poovendran. Despicable Me(ter): Anonymous and Fine-grained Metering Data Reporting with Dishonest Meters, IEEE Conference and Communication and Network Security (CNS), Pages 163 – 171, Philadelphia, USA, 2016.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Bo Yang, Guang Gong, and Mark Aagaard. On Ideal t-Tuple Distribution of Filtering de Bruijn Sequence Generators, presented at the 9th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications (SETA 2016), October 2016.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Filtering Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers using Welch-Gong Transformations for Securing RFID Applications, ICST Transactions Security Safety, Volume 16, No. 7, 2016.
• Yin Tan, Kalikinkar Mandal, Teng Wu, Guang Gong. Security Analysis of TUAK Algorithm Set for 4G-LTE Authentication and Key Agreement, in The 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016), August 2016. Invited Paper.

2015

• Xinxin Fan, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Guang Gong. WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Devices, ICST Transactions Security Safety, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015.
• Moreno Ambrosin, Hossein Hosseini, Kalikinkar Mandal, Mauro Conti, and Radha Poovendran. Verifiable and Privacy-preserving Fine-Grained Data-Collection for Smart Metering, in IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cybermatics (SPiCy), Florence, Italy, 2015.

2014

• Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong, Xinxin Fan and Mark Aagaard. Optimal Parameters for the WG Stream Cipher Family, Cryptography and Communications, Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 117-135, 2014.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Generating Good Span n Sequences Using Orthogonal Functions in Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers, in Open Problems in Mathematics and Computational Science, Springer, Pages 127-162, 2014.

2013

• Goutam K. Audhya, Koushik Sinha, Kalikinkar Mandal, Rana Dattagupta, Sasthi C. Ghosh and Bhabani P. Sinha. A New Approach to Fast Near-optimal Channel Assignment in Cellular Mobile Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 12, No. 9, Pages 1814-1827, 2013.
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Guang Gong, Xinxin Fan and Mark Aagaard. On Selection of Optimal Parameters for the WG Cipher Family, in 13th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, IEEE, Pages 17-21, 2013.
• Xinxin Fan, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Guang Gong. WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Devices, in International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, LNICST, Volume 115, Pages 617-632, 2013.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Filtering Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers using Welch-Gong Transformations for Securing RFID Applications, in International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, LNICST, Volume 115, Pages 643-657, 2013.

2012

• Kalikinkar Mandal, Xinxin Fan, and Guang Gong. Warbler: A Lightweight Pseudorandom Number Generator for EPC C1 Gen2 Tags, in Radio Frequency Identification System Security: RFIDsec'11 Asia Workshop Proceedings (Cryptology and Information Security), ISO Press, Volume 8, Pages 73-84, 2012.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Cryptographically Strong de Bruijn Sequences with Large Periods, in Selected Areas in Cryptography, LNCS, Volume 7707, Pages 104-118, 2012.

Techincal Report/ePrint:

• Guang Gong, Kalikinkar Mandal, Yin Tan, Teng Wu. Security Assessment of TUAK Algorithm Set, CACR Technical Report, Univerisity of Waterloo, 2014
• Kalikinkar Mandal, Yin Tan, Teng Wu, and Guang Gong. A Comprehensive Security Analysis of the TUAK Algorithm Set, CACR Technical Report CACR 2016-02, University of Waterloo, 2016.
• Yin Tan, Kalikinkar Mandal, and Guang Gong. Characterization of Column Parity Kernel and Differential Cryptanalysis of Keccak Using Linear Algebra, CACR Technical Report 2014-01, University of Waterloo, 2014.
• Kalikinkar Mandal and Guang Gong. Probabilistic Generation of Good Span n sequences from Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers, CACR Technical Report, Univerisity of Waterloo, 2012.