Abubakr Abdulgadir

Contact

3100 Engineering Building
George Mason University
ECE Department, CERG
4400 University Drive, MS 1G5
Fairfax, VA 22030
 Office: Engineering Building, Room 3224
Phone (lab): 703-993-1609
E-Mail: aabdulga'at'gmu.edu

Research Interests

  • Side-channel analysis and countermeasures
  • Cryptography
  • Secure implementation of cryptography
  • Digital design
  • Hardware software/co-design

Advisor: Dr. Jens-Peter Kaps

Biography

Abubakr Abdulgadir received his BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from Gezira University in 2006 and 2009 respectively. He worked as a lecturer and taught computer engineering related courses. Also, he worked in supporting and administrating Linux-based systems. Abubakr is now a PhD student and a Graduate Research Assistant at GMU and a member of the CERG team.

Publications

  • W. Diehl, F. Farahmand, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Fixing the CLOC with fine-grain leakage analysis, Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), Association for Computing Machinery, Toronto, Canada, pages 75–80, Oct, 2018 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, F. Farahmand, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Comparison of cost of protection against differential power analysis of selected authenticated ciphers, Cryptography, volume 2, number 3, Sep, 2018 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, Vulnerability analysis of a soft core processor through fine-grain power profiling, Jun, 2019, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2019/742 [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, R. Haeussler, R. Nagpal, F. Farahmand, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, FPGA benchmarking of round 2 candidates in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process: Methodology, metrics, tools, and results, Oct, 2020, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2020/1207 [Bibtex]
  • J.-P. Kaps, K. Gaj, A. Abdulgadir, and K. Mohajerani, General framework for evaluating LWC finalists in terms of resistance to side-channel attacks, May, 2022, Fifth NIST Lightweight Cryptography Workshop, NIST [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, E. Ferrufino, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, SCA evaluation and benchmarking of finalists in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, May, 2023, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2023/484 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Lightweight champions of the world: Side-channel resistant open hardware for finalists in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Jul., 2024 [Bibtex]
  • E. Ferrufino, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, FOBOS 3: An open-source platform for side-channel analysis and benchmarking, Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), Association for Computing Machinery, Copenhagen, Denmark, pages 5–14, Nov, 2023 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, R. Haeussler, S. Lin, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Side-channel resistant implementations of three finalists of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process: Elephant, TinyJAMBU, and xoodyak, Fifth NIST Lightweight Cryptography Workshop, NIST, May, 2022 [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, K. Mohajerani, V. Dang, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, A lightweight implementation of Saber resistant against side-channel attacks, Oct, 2021, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1452 [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, S. Lin, F. Farahmand, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Side-channel resistant implementations of a novel lightweight authenticated cipher with application to hardware security, Proc. Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2021, pages 229-234, June, 2021 [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and A. Salman, Enhancing information security courses with remotely accessible side-channel analysis setup, Proceedings of the 2022 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, ACM, Irvine, CA, Jun, 2022 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, K. Mohajerani, V.B. Dang, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, A lightweight implementation of Saber resistant against side-channel attacks, 22nd International Conference on Cryptology in India, Indocrypt 2021, Dec, 2021 [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, Secure hardware implementations of lightweight and post-quantum cryptography: Trade-offs, applicability, and tools, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, May, 2021, Ph.D. Dissertation [Bibtex]
  • K. Mohajerani, R. Haeussler, R. Nagpal, F. Farahmand, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Hardware benchmarking of Round 2 candidates in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, 24th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, DATE 2021, Feb, 2021 [Bibtex]
  • J. Bahrami, V. Dang, A. Abdulgadir, K.N. Khasawneh, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Lightweight implementation of the LowMC block cipher protected against side-channel attacks, Proc. 4th ACM Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, ASHES 2020, pages 45-56, Nov, 2020 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, W. Diehl, and J.-P. Kaps, An open-source platform for evaluation of hardware implementations of lightweight authenticated ciphers, 2019 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, ReConFig 2019, Cancun, Mexico, Dec., 2019 [Accepted Version, pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, W. Diehl, and J.-P. Kaps, Flexible, Opensource workBench fOr Side-channel analysis (FOBOS), user guide, v2.0, Cryptographic Engineering Research Group, Dec, 2019 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, W. Diehl, and J.-P. Kaps, An open-source platform for evaluating side-channel countermeasures in hardware implementations of lightweight authenticated ciphers, Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2019, NIST, pages 12, Nov, 2019 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • A. Abdulgadir, W. Diehl, R. Velegalati, and J.-P. Kaps, Flexible, Opensource workBench fOr Side-channel analysis, IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Trust: Hardware Demo, 2018 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, F. Farahmand, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Face-off between the CAESAR lightweight finalists: ACORN vs. Ascon, Cryptology ePrint Archive, number 184, March, 2019 [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, F. Farahmand, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Face-off between the CAESAR lightweight finalists: ACORN vs. Ascon, International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, FPT 2018, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, December, 2018 [Bibtex]
  • F. Farahmand, W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Improved lightweight implementations of CAESAR authenticated ciphers, The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2018, Boulder, CO, USA, IEEE, pages 29–36, April, 2018 [Bibtex]
  • F. Farahmand, W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Improved lightweight implementations of CAESAR authenticated ciphers, 2018, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2018/573 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, F. Farahmand, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Comparison of cost of protection against differential power analysis of selected authenticated ciphers, 2018, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2018/341 [pdf] [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Comparing the cost of protecting selected lightweight block ciphers against differential power analysis in low-cost FPGAs, Computers, volume 7, number 2, Apr, 2018 [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, F. Farahmand, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Comparison of cost of protection against differential power analysis of selected authenticated ciphers, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2018, Washington, DC, April, 2018 [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Side-channel resistant soft core processor for lightweight block ciphers, International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2017), Cancun, Mexico, Dec, 2017 [Bibtex]
  • W. Diehl, A. Abdulgadir, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, Comparing the cost of protecting selected lightweight block ciphers against differential power analysis in low-cost FPGAs, International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT 2017), Melbourne, Australia, Dec, 2017 [Bibtex]