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Overview

Çetin Kaya Koç is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. The primary field of their research is Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their main research topics encompass Cryptography and Data Security, Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic, Coding Theory and Cryptography, Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques, and Advanced Neural Network Applications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Çetin Kaya Koç include:

  • Improved Plantard Arithmetic for Lattice-based Cryptography, 2022, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • High-performance and Configurable SW/HW Co-design of Post-quantum Signature CRYSTALS-Dilithium, 2022, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
  • Yet Another Improvement of Plantard Arithmetic for Faster Kyber on Low-End 32-bit IoT Devices, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • LEAP: Lightweight and Efficient Accelerator for Sparse Polynomial Multiplication of HQC, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Revisiting Keccak and Dilithium Implementations on ARMv7-M, 2024, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ray C. C. Cheung
  • Donglong Chen
  • Donghai Guan
  • Jipeng Zhang
  • Wangchen Dai

Best Publications

  • Analyzing and comparing Montgomery multiplication algorithms

    C. Kaya Koc;T. Acar;B.S. Kaliski

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2002

    Burton S. Kaliski;çetin K. Koç;Christof Paar

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems — CHES 2001

    Çetin K. Koç;David Naccache;Christof Paar

  • Predicting secret keys via branch prediction

    Onur Acıiçmez;Çetin Kaya Koç;Jean-Pierre Seifert

  • Montgomery Multiplication in GF(2 ^k

    Cetin K. Koc;Tolga Acar

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2003

    Colin D. Walter;Çetin K. Koç;Christof Paar

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems — CHES 2000

    Çetin K. Koç;Christof Paar

  • On the power of simple branch prediction analysis

    Onur Aciiçmez;Çetin Kaya Koç;Jean-Pierre Seifert

  • Low-complexity bit-parallel canonical and normal basis multipliers for a class of finite fields

    C.K. Koc;B. Sunar

  • Cryptographic Algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware

    Francisco Rodriguez-Henriquez;N. A. Saqib;Arturo Daz Prez;Cetin Kaya Koc

  • A scalable architecture for modular multiplication based on Montgomery's algorithm

    A.F. Tenca;C.K. Koc

  • A Scalable Architecture for Montgomery Multiplication

    Alexandre F. Tenca;Çetin Kaya Koç

  • Mastrovito multiplier for all trinomials

    B. Sunar;C.K. Koc

  • About Cryptographic Engineering

    Çetin Kaya Koç;Çetin Kaya Koç

  • A Scalable and Unified Multiplier Architecture for Finite Fields GF(p) and GF(2m)

    Erkay Savas;Alexandre F. Tenca;Çetin Kaya Koç

  • An efficient optimal normal basis type II multiplier

    B. Sunar;C.K. Koc

  • Cache based remote timing attack on the AES

    Onur Acıiçmez;Werner Schindler;Çetin K. Koç

  • Trace-driven cache attacks on AES (short paper)

    Onur Acıiçmez;Çetin Kaya Koç

  • Mastrovito multiplier for general irreducible polynomials

    A. Halbutogullari;C.K. Koc

  • Analysis of sliding window techniques for exponentiation

    C.K. Koç

Frequent Co-Authors

Erkay Savas
Erkay Savas Sabancı University
Christof Paar
Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Berk Sunar
Berk Sunar Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jean-Pierre Seifert
Jean-Pierre Seifert Technical University of Berlin
Guanrong Chen
Guanrong Chen City University of Hong Kong
Burton S. Kaliski
Burton S. Kaliski Verisign Inc.
David Naccache
David Naccache École Normale Supérieure
Kwang-Ting Cheng
Kwang-Ting Cheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Linda R. Petzold
Linda R. Petzold University of California, Santa Barbara
Allen Gersho
Allen Gersho University of California, Santa Barbara

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