3rd Minutes Of Meeting

25 October

3rd Meeting of Mode Cipher Analysis Group

Members Present
Wilfred Kok Jia Qiang (Current Group Representative)
Mark Yuen Leen Jin (Secretariat)
Khant Kyaw Nyein
Sin Cheong Loong
Eugene Zhuang (Newly Addition)

Agenda
1) Meet up with Supervisor
2) Project proposal details
3) Project discussion

Minutes of Meeting

- The group met up with our Project supervisor, Mr Tian

- An additional member was added to our group, Eugene Zhuang

- Mr Tian, explained to us the requirements of our project

- The idea is to create a program which enables to encrypt/decrypt data

- The assumption is based that our project will be used by researchers to analysis the performance on different combinations of encryption and mode ciphers

- The analysis of performance is based mostly on encryption timing.

- The program should include different cipher modes like ECB,OFB,CFB,CBC,PCBC and Counter Mode.

- The encryption algorithm is to be chosen by us, and we have agreed on using DES and AES.

- Mr Tian mentioned about additional features like multi-threaded/parallel processing.

- Multi threading encryption splits up the packets into equal individual packets and our program will handle encrypting each packets individually.

- There is a possibility that certain algorithm and modes might be not the most efficient way to go about and our program should display the results for each individual thread,(if each thread is chosen a different algorithm/mode)

- This is to allow the researchers to compare the results individually.

- The objective of the project is to create a program that allows encryption/decryption of data with different modes that can be chosen by the researcher, the project will then produces results which can be compared.

- Mr Tian also gave us a brief summary of what our proposal should contain, mainly the points that we have reviewed are included.

- In conclusion, a Deadline for the proposal was issued, and was concluded that on the 2nd of November 2011, we are to submit a full proposal to Mr Tian.

- At 2030hrs, the meeting was adjourned.

Vetted By Secretariat
Mark Yuen Leen Jin