Ghaith Hammouri

 

Contact Information:

Ghaith Hammouri

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
Office: Atwater Kent, Room 011
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609-2280


Phone: (508) 831-5726
Email: hammouri'at'wpi.edu

 

About:

I got my PhD in Computer Engineering under the supervision of Professor Berk Sunar. My dissertation is titled “Cryptographic Primitives from Physical Variables.” Currently I am a post-doc in the ECE department at WPI also working with Professor Berk Sunar.

 

Research Interest:

·        Physical variables and physically unclonable functions (PUFs)

·        Preventing counterfeiting

·        Device identification

·        Lightweight cryptography

 

Specific Projects:

·        CD fingerprinting

 

Publications:

  1. Kahraman Akdemir, Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar, Non-linear Error Detection for Finite State Machines. In: Youm, H. Y., Yung, M., (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2009), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2009 (to appear).

 

  1. Ghaith Hammouri, Aykutlu Dana, Berk Sunar, CDs Have Fingerprints Too. In: Clavier, C., Gaj, K., (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2009), LNCS, vol. 5747, pp. 348-362, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2009).

 

  1. Ghaith Hammouri, Kahraman Akdemir, Berk Sunar, Novel PUF-based error detection methods in finite state machines. In: Lee, P.J., Cheon, J.H., (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2008), LNCS, vol. 5461, pp. 235-252, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2008).

 

  1. Yin Hu, Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar, A fast real-time memory authentication protocol. In: Xu, S., Nita-Rotaru, C., Seifert, J.P., (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC 2008), pp. 31-40, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2008).

 

  1. Ghaith Hammouri, Erdinc Ozturk, Berk Birand, Berk Sunar, Unclonable lightweight authentication scheme. In: Chen, L., Ryan, M.D., Wang, G., (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2008), LNCS, vol. 5308, pp. 33-48, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2008).

 

  1. Ghaith Hammouri, Erdinc Ozturk, Berk Sunar, A tamper-proof and lightweight authentication scheme. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 4(6), pp. 807-818, (2008).

 

  1. Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar, PUF-HB: a tamper-resilient HB based authentication protocol. In: Bellovin, S.M., Gennaro, R., Keromytis, A.D., Yung, M., (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2008), LNCS, vol. 5037, pp. 346-365, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2008).

 

  1. Erdinc Ozturk, Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar, Physical unclonable function with tristate buffers. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008), 18-21 May 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 3194-3197, IEEE, Washington, DC, USA (2008).

 

  1. Erdinc Ozturk, Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar, Towards robust low cost authentication for pervasive devices. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), 17-21 March 2008, Hong Kong, pp. 170-178, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA (2008).