IIT Guwahati Research Team achieves breakthrough in protecting data from cyber attacks
IIT-Guwahati research team GUWAHATI: A IIT-Guwahati team of researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, has achieved breakthrough in developing indigenous algorithms to protect digital data from cyber attacks and designed encryption architectures to protect sensitive health data that is transmitted through the internet.
The PQC-based encryption algorithms and designed indigenous soft IPs can be integrated into Systems-on-Chip (SoC) to protect nation's digital data from cyber attacks, an IIT-G spokesperson said here on Wednesday. He said that these algorithms and IPs would enable critical data such as national security data and citizen information to be under unbreakable lock-and-key, thereby enhancing the safety of our nation against cyber-attacks.
The research work that is underway in collaboration with scientists from the University of Pardubice, has been recently published in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA) and received third best paper award by IEEE Czechoslovakia Section based on its research contributions. The team is led by Dr Gaurav Trivedi, associate professor of electronics and electrical engineering at IIT-G, includes Prof. Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, assistant professor from his department, Prof. Zdenek Nemec and Prof. Jan Pidanic from the University of Pardubice. The team also consists of research scholars Bikram Paul, Uddipana Dowerah, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Balbir Singh, Abhishek Agrawal, Meenali Janveja, and Souradip Pal from IIT-G.
“It has become indispensable to design new encryption schemes that can resist both quantum computer- as well as classical computer-based attacks,” Trivedi said. He said that this need has given rise to a new field of research, called Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and state-of-art research teams all over the world, including the IIT-G team has been working on developing algorithms to secure data from attacks by advanced computers.
Lauding the efforts, IIT-G director Prof. TG. Sitharam, said, “Both these electronic devices are the results of the joint efforts of IIT Guwahati and the University of Pardubice with whom we have had successful collaboration for the past nine years. These devices are in-line with India’s vision of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) and independence from foreign technology”.
The IIT-G team has also worked towards enhancing data security in the healthcare sector that is increasingly using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to cater to the needs of the country. IoT healthcare aids in the real-time diagnosis of diseases by keeping a patient digitally connected to a medical expert 24x7, thus avoiding the visits and admissions in the hospital, a facility particularly critical in these pandemic times.
“We have developed an area- and power-efficient Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) architecture that can encrypt and decrypt ECG data for transmission across the Internet. This is also suitable for low power IoT applications,” said Trivedi.
The PQC-based encryption algorithms and designed indigenous soft IPs can be integrated into Systems-on-Chip (SoC) to protect nation's digital data from cyber attacks, an IIT-G spokesperson said here on Wednesday. He said that these algorithms and IPs would enable critical data such as national security data and citizen information to be under unbreakable lock-and-key, thereby enhancing the safety of our nation against cyber-attacks.
The research work that is underway in collaboration with scientists from the University of Pardubice, has been recently published in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA) and received third best paper award by IEEE Czechoslovakia Section based on its research contributions. The team is led by Dr Gaurav Trivedi, associate professor of electronics and electrical engineering at IIT-G, includes Prof. Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, assistant professor from his department, Prof. Zdenek Nemec and Prof. Jan Pidanic from the University of Pardubice. The team also consists of research scholars Bikram Paul, Uddipana Dowerah, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Balbir Singh, Abhishek Agrawal, Meenali Janveja, and Souradip Pal from IIT-G.
“It has become indispensable to design new encryption schemes that can resist both quantum computer- as well as classical computer-based attacks,” Trivedi said. He said that this need has given rise to a new field of research, called Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and state-of-art research teams all over the world, including the IIT-G team has been working on developing algorithms to secure data from attacks by advanced computers.
Lauding the efforts, IIT-G director Prof. TG. Sitharam, said, “Both these electronic devices are the results of the joint efforts of IIT Guwahati and the University of Pardubice with whom we have had successful collaboration for the past nine years. These devices are in-line with India’s vision of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) and independence from foreign technology”.
The IIT-G team has also worked towards enhancing data security in the healthcare sector that is increasingly using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to cater to the needs of the country. IoT healthcare aids in the real-time diagnosis of diseases by keeping a patient digitally connected to a medical expert 24x7, thus avoiding the visits and admissions in the hospital, a facility particularly critical in these pandemic times.
“We have developed an area- and power-efficient Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) architecture that can encrypt and decrypt ECG data for transmission across the Internet. This is also suitable for low power IoT applications,” said Trivedi.
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