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Current Research Projects
SUT places considerable
emphasis on developing a research portfolio spanning pure
basic research, strategic basic research, applied research and
experimental development. Pure basic research includes
experimental and theoretical work driven by curiosity in an
unconstrained search for new knowledge. Strategic basic
research involves experimental and theoretical work undertaken
to acquire new knowledge directed into specified broad areas
in the expectation of useful discoveries. It provides the
broad base of knowledge necessary for the solution of
recognised practical problems. Applied research is original
work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge with a
specific application in view. Experimental development is
systematic work, using existing knowledge gained from research
or practical experience, that is directed to producing new
materials, products or devices, to installing new processes,
systems and services, or to improving substantially those
already produced or installed.
In line with this, Swinburne
Sarawak is currently involved in the following research
projects:
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Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers:
Generalization, Extensions & Integration
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Objectives:
- To generalize on the
various cryptanalysis techniques and show that even though each technique
is unique in its own way, they all in fact have a general and common
structure.
- To show how the current
cryptanalysis techniques can be extended and apply them to some existing
block ciphers.
- To integrate cryptanalysis
techniques into more advanced techniques that are able to break ciphers
which are resistant to the conventional attacks.
- To spearhead cryptanalysis
research in Malaysia.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
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Researchers
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Raphael C.-W. Phan
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Partner
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Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya
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Source of Funding
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None
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started July 2001)
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Targeted Completion
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N/A
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Security Analysis of MyKAD,
Authentication and Key-Exchange Protocols
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Objectives:
- To analyze the physical,
implementation, protocol and algorithm security of MyKAD.
- To suggest additional
MyKAD applications.
- To spearhead the task of
analyzing the security of MyKAD and security protocols in Malaysia.
- To analyze the security of
authentication and key-exchange protocols.
- To suggest countermeasures
against attacks.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
Experimental development
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Researchers
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Raphael C.-W. Phan
Lawan A. Mohammed
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Partner
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None
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Source of Funding
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Swinburne Sarawak Internal Grant
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started April 2003)
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Targeted Completion
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N/A
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Establishing a Common Framework
for Steganalysis & Cryptanalysis
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Objectives:
- To analyze the
security of steganographic schemes.
- To relate between the two
fields of steganalysis & cryptanalysis.
- To spearhead steganalysis
research in Malaysia.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
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Researchers
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Raphael C.-W. Phan
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Partner
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Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya.
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Source of Funding
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None
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started July 2003)
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Targeted Completion
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N/A
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Wireless Security Protocols:
Vulnerability of Implementation
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Objectives:
- To study the security
flaws inherent in the IEEE 802.11 protocol suite and to establish a
possible foundation for secure wireless communications.
- To research the following
aspects of wireless infrastructure; discovery and vulnerability
assessment, access-point security including media access control
filtering, user authentication and encryption, security policy
enforcement and intrusion detection.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
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Researchers
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Biju
Issac
Tommy
Tang
Victor K.-M.
Chee
Raphael
C.-W. Phan
Sim Kwan Yong
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Partner
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None
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Source of Funding
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None
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started August 2004)
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Targeted Completion
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2005
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Digital Watermarking Schemes
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Objective:
- To study the security of
digital watermarking and fingerprinting schemes, and the environments in
which they are used.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
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Researchers
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Dennis ML Wong
Raphael C.-W. Phan
Patrick H.H. Then
Grace C.-W. Ting
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Partner
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None
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Source of Funding
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None
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started August 2004)
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Targeted Completion
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2005
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Online University Registration
System Using iVEST Smartcards
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Objectives:
- To design and implement an
online registration system for university students by using iVEST
smartcards.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
Experimental development
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Researchers
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Ermaliza Razali
Joy T.-S. Teo
Lin-Foong Chang
Raphael C.-W. Phan
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Partner
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MIMOS & iVEST
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Source of Funding
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Swinburne Sarawak Internal Grant & MIMOS
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started Feb 2004)
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Targeted Completion
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Dec
2004
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Analysis of Commercial Security
Systems
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Objective:
- To investigate
the resistance of commercial security systems against attacks such as
those that exploit the application program interface (API). Examples of
security systems include the smartcard-based ATM machines, MyKad, credit
cards, pay-TV, etc.
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
Experimental development
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Researchers
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Antionette W.-T. Goh
Gary
S.-W. Yeo
Raphael C.-W. Phan
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Partner
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MIMOS & iVEST
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Source of Funding
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Swinburne Sarawak Internal Grant & MIMOS
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started August 2004)
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Targeted Completion
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July
2005
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Security of FPGA Implementations
of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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Objective:
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To implement
the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on an FPGA board, and to
empirically investigate the resistance of such FPGA implementations
against side-channel attacks (timing, power and fault analysis).
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Type of Research
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Strategic basic research
Applied research
Experimental development
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Researchers
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M.-C. Ang
Zoe
S.-H. Lau
Raphael C.-W. Phan
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Partner
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MIMOS & iVEST
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Source of Funding
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Swinburne Sarawak Internal Grant & MIMOS
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started August 2004)
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Targeted Completion
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July
2005
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IPv6 Test Bed with
Research on Security and Mobility
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Objective:
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To implement
IPv6 test bed in Linux/Windows and to study IPv6 and MIPv6 protocol
features
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To analyze
the existing micro-mobility and macro-mobility protocols
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To analyze
the security issues those are associated with mobility protocols
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To study on
the movement detection and handoff schemes in relation to mobility and
security
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To suggest
countermeasures against any security attacks in the scope of research
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Type of Research
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Applied research
Experimental development with simulation
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Researchers
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Biju Issac
Raphael C.-W. Phan
Lawan A. Mohammed
Teo Hock Thiam
Edwin Chan
Ting Huat Nguan |
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Partner
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NAv6 Center, USM, Malaysia
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Source of Funding
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Swinburne Sarawak Internal Grant
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started in January 2006) |
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Targeted Completion
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2008
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Secure Electronic
Voting System |
Objective:
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To study and
analyze various secure evoting approaches, including GNU.FREE
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To
conceptually design a secure electronic voting system with the
application of cryptographic protocols
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To eventually implement a Java
application using Java Swing and Java Crypto API
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Type of Research
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Applied research
Experimental development
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Researchers
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Biju Issac
Samantha Halpagoda
Raymond Chiong |
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Partner
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None |
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Source of Funding
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NA
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Progress Status
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Ongoing (Started in January 2006)
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Targeted Completion
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2007
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