Aysajan Abidin, PhD

Theses

• PhD Dissertation: Authentication in Quantum Key Distribution: Security Proof and Universal Hash Functions
  (Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, 2013)
  
  
• Licentiate Thesis: Weaknesses of Authentication in Quantum Cryptography and Strongly Universal Hash Functions
  (Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, 2010)
  
  
• Master Thesis: Finite Element Simulations of Stochastic Patial Differential Equations (Solver)
  (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, 2007)

Journal Papers

1. Direct Proof of Security of Wegman-Carter Authentication with Partially Known Key
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson
   Journal of Quantum Information Processing, 2013.
   QOI: 10.1007/s11128-013-0641-6

2. Vulnerability of "A novel protocol-authentication algorithm ruling out a man-in-the-middle attack in Quantum Cryptography"
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson
   International Journal of Quantum Information Vol. 7, No. 5 (2009) 10471052.
   

Refereed Conference Papers

1. On security of universal hash function based multiple authentication
   Aysajan Abidin
   Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7618, pp. 303-310, Springer Verlag.

2. New Universal Hash Functions
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson
   Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7242, pp. 99-108, Springer Verlag.

3. Quantum Cryptography and Authentication with Low Key-Consumption
   A. Abidin, C. Pacher, T. Lorünser, J.-Å. Larsson and M. Peev
   Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8189. (2011)

4. Special properties of Strongly Universal-2 hash functions important in Quantum Cryptography
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson
   AIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 1101, pp. 289-293, 2009.

Submitted Papers

1. Attacks on quantum key distribution protocols that employ non-ITS authentication
   C. Pacher, Aysajan Abidin, T. Lorünser, M. Peev, R. Ursin, A. Zeilinger and J.-Å. Larsson
   arxiv.org/abs/1209.0365

Preprints

1. Security of Authentication with a Fixed Key in Quantum Key Distribution
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson
   arxiv.org/abs/1109.5168

2. Lifetime of Authentication Using Encrypted Tags When the Encryption Key is Partially Known
   Aysajan Abidin and Jan-Åke Larsson