Dr. Kunwar Singh

Name

Dr.Kunwar Singh

Designation

Associate Professor

Landline

0431-2503212

E-mail Id

kunwar@nitt.edu, kunwar2081@gmail.com

Specialization

Cryptography

  Google Scholar link.

Academic Qualifications:

Examination

Board / University

Year

Division/ Grade

Subjects

PhD

IIT Madras

2015

CGPA-8.25

Computer Science

MTech

JNU New Delhi

2001

First / 6.9

Computer Science

Employment Profile :

Job Title

Employer

From

To

Lecturer

AEC Agra, SGI group

August 2004

August 2006

Assistant Professor

NIT Trichy

September 2006

Till now

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities within the University:

Position

Faculty/Department/Centre/Institution

From

To

Member, anti-ragging Committee

NIT Trichy

July 2016

 

Member, Community Radio station (CRS)-Programme

NIT Trichy

November 2016

 

Member, MTech project committee

CSE Department

July 2016

May 2016

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities outside the University: 

Position

Institution

From

To

Reviewer of question papers

Pondicherry University

18th October

 

External Examiner for the comprehensive examination

NIT Karaikal

30th November

 

Awards, Associateships, etc:

Year of Award

Name of the Award

Awarding Organization

2013

Best Paper Award

The international conference MIST 2013 was held in Busan, South Korea.

 Fellowships: 

Year of Award

Name of the Fellowship

Awarding Organization

From

(Month/Year)

To

(Month/Year)

2017

B.Tech students

TCS Best B.Tech project award

2017

 

Details of Academic Work

  • Curriculum Development

Designed the following courses:

UG Level:  1. Principle of cryptography 2. Advanced Cryptography

  1. Discrete structure

PG Level:  Mathematics foundation of computer science 

  • Courses taught at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels

Data Structure

Design and analysis of Algorithm

Automata and Formal Languages

Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Discrete Mathematics

Principles of cryptography

C- Language

Database Management Systems

Information security

Computer graphics

Computer Organisation

  • Projects guided at Postgraduate level: 15 PG projects
  • Other contribution(s)

Details of Major R&D Projects:

Title of Project

Funding Agency

Duration

Status

From

To

Ongoing/ Completed

Research and Development of Lightweight Stream Cipher

DST

January 2018

June 2022

Completed

Research and Development of Secure and Privacy Preserving Blockchain based Smart Contract and its Applications

SERB

2nd Feb 2022

Feb 2025

Ongoing

 Number of PhDs guided:

Name of the Ph.D. Scholar

Title of Ph.D. Thesis

Role(Supervisor/ Co-Supervisor)

Year of Award

Koteswararao CH

Secure

Multi-party Computation

Supervisor

2021

 Participation in Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia /Seminars/ Schools etc. (mentioning the role):

Date (s)

Title of Activity

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Role (Participant/ Speaker/ Chairperson, Paper presenter, Any other)

Event Organized by

Venue

September 23rd, 2016

National Conclave on Network Security and Cryptography

National

Invited Speaker

 

Department of

Computer Applications, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala.

 

 Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia/Seminars Organized (as Chairman/ Organizing Secretary/ Convenor / Co-Convenor):

Title of Activity

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Date (s)

Role

Venue

Introduction to Cryptography

National Level Workshop

30th May to 4th June 2016

Organizing Secretary

NIT Trichy

Cryptology (NWC 2017)

 

 

National Level Conference

28th to 30th September 2017

 

Organizing Secretary

NIT Trichy

Blockchain and Smart Contract

Technologies 2019 (BSCT 2019)

 

National Level Conference

7th  to 10th  November

Organizing Secretary

NIT Trichy

Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies 2021 (BSCT 2021)

National Level

Workshop

25th  to 29th  June 2021

Organizing Secretary

NIT Trichy

Introduction to Cryptography

National Level

Workshop

24th to 28th  November 2021

Organizing Secretary

NIT Trichy

 Invited Talks delivered: 

Topic

Date

Inviting Organization

Technical talk on \Bitcoin Wallet International Conference on Current Trends in Advanced Computing (ICCTAC 2020)

6th to 07th May 2020

Bangalore

Tutorial talk on \Bitcoin ". National Conference on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies 2019 (BSCT 2019)

 

7th to 10th  November 2019.

NIT  Trichy

\Elliptic curve cryptosystem. National Conclave on Network Security and Cryptography.

 

 

September 23rd2016.

Department of Computer Applications, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala.

 

The provable secure encryption scheme

15th September 2016

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSGCollege of technology

Coimbatore

 

Mathematical foundation on Cryptography

30th May 2016

Department of Computer Science and

engineering, NIT Trichy

 

Public Key Cryptography

5th August 2016

Department of Computer Science and

engineering, NIT Trichy

 

Recent Trends In Cryptography

5th November 2015

Department of Computer Science and

engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu

 

 Membership in Learned Societies:

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member )

Organization

Membership No. with date

Life Member

Cryptology Research Society of India

417

Life Member

IEEE

 

Academic Foreign Visits: 

Country

Duration of Visit

Programme

Japan

November  8-9

To present a paper at the international conference MIST 2012 held in Fukuoka, Japan.

South Korea

October  24-25

To present a paper at the international conference MIST

2013 held in Busan, South Korea.

Indonesia

April 14-17

To present a paper at the international conference AsiaARES 2014 held in Bali, Indonesia.

Australia

December 10--14

To present a paper at the international conference ISPEC/MONAMI 2017 held in Melbourne, Australia.

 

Philippines.

 

October 21-23

To present a paper at the international conference MobiSec 2018 held in Cebu, Philippines.

 

 

Publications

 (A) Refereed Research Journals: 

Author(s)

Title of Paper

Journal

Volume  (No.)

Page numbers

 

Year

Impact Factor of the Journal

(Optional)

Kunwar Singh, Karthika S K,

Theoretical Analysis of Biases in TLS En[1]cryption Scheme Chacha 128

Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI)

 

 

2022

 

Kunwar Singh, KKC Deepti,  S. K. Karthika

Improved related-cipher attack on Salsa and ChaCha

International journal information technology, Springer.

 

 

2022

 

Kunwar Singh Ch Koteswara Rao.

Oblivious Stable Sorting Protocol and Oblivious Binary Search Protocol for Secure Multi-party Computation

Journal of High-Speed Networks.

 

 

2021

 

Kunwar Singh, S Mercy Shalinie, Dharani J, K Sundarakantham,

A PrivacyPreserving Framework for Endorsement Process in Hyperledger Fabric

Computers Security,

 

 

2022

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, Richa Agarwal, Samir Sheshank

Lattice-based Unidirectional PRE and PRE+ Schemes

IET Information Security (SCI)

 

 

2020

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, Richa Agarwal, Samir Sheshank

Provably Secure Lattice-Based Identity Based Unidirectional PRE and PRE+ Schemes

Journal of Information Security and Applications (SCI)

54

 

2020

 

Kunwar Singh , Ch Koteswara Rao

Securely Solving Privacy Preserving Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms in Semi-honest Model

Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI)

34

1-10

2020

 

Kunwar Singh, Gaurav Srivastava, Richa Agrawal, Rajeev Tripathi, and Kshirasagar Naik

A Hierarchical Identity-based Security for Delay Toler[1]and Networks using Lattice-based Cryptography

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (SCI), Springer

13

348 - 367

2020

 

Kunwar Singh, KKC Deepti

Cryptanalysis of reduced round Salsa and ChaCha

 IET Information Security (SCI).

13

591 – 602

2019

 

Kunwar Singh Pratyush Dikshit  

Weighted threshold ECDSA for securing bitcoin wallet

ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security, pp.

2(6)

43-51

2017

 

Kunwar Singh, C.Pandu Rangan, A.K.Banerjee

Lattice-Based Identity Based Resplittable Threshold Public Key Encryption Scheme

International Journal of Computer Mathematics

93

289-307

2016

.577

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-Based Mix Network for Location Privacy in Mobile System

Mobile Information Systems

 

 

2015

1.462

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-Based Universal Re-encryption for Mixnet

Journal of Information Science and Information Security ( JISIS )

4

1-12

2014

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-Based Identity Based Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme

Journal of Information Science and Information Security ( JISIS )

3

38-51

2013

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-based efficient threshold public key encryption scheme

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (jowua)

4

93-107

2013

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-Based ForwardSecure Identity Based Encryption Schemes with Shorter Ciphertext

Journal of Information Science and Information Security ( JISIS )

3

5-19

2013

 

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-Based ForwardSecure Identity Based Encryption Schemes

Journal of Information Science and Information security ( JISIS )

2

118- 128

2012

 

(B)  Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings:

Author(s)

Title of Abstract/ Paper

Title of the Proceedings

Page numbers

Conference Theme

Venue

Year

Kunwar Singh Karthika SK

Theoretical Analysis of Biases in Chacha 128-bits

 

 

5th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec 2021),

Jeju Island, South Korea.

2021

Kunwar Singh

Sudarshan Parthasarathy Akash Harikrishnan, Gautam Narayanan, Lohith J. J

Secure Distributed Medical Record Storage using Blockchain and Emergency Sharing Using Multi-Party Computation

 

 

3rd International Workshop on Blockchains and Smart Contracts workshop (BSC 2021)

Paris, France

2021

Kunwar Singh

Amalan Joseph Antony

 

Enhancing Privacy in a Blockchain-based Public Key Infrastructure

Third ISEA Conference on Security and Privacy (ISEA-ISAP)

 

IEEE.

IIT Guwahati.

2020

Kunwar Singh

C.H. Koteswara

RaoSecurely Solving Privacy Preserving Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms in Semi-honest Model

 

1-10

International conference MobiSec

Cebu, Philippines

2018

Kunwar Singh

KKC Deepti

 

Cryptanalysis of Salsa and ChaCha

Mobile Networks and Management 

Springer

 324–338

9th EAI International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management

(MONAMI 2017)

Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Kunwar Singh Pratyush Dikshit.

Efficient Weighted Threshold ECDSA for Securing Bitcoin Wallet

Asia Security Privacy

 

IEEE.

NIT Surat.

2017

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Lattice-based Identity-based Unidirectional Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme

Springer International Publishing

76-91

International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering

IIT Kharagpur, India

 

2014

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Efficient Lattice HIBE in the Standard Model with Shorter Public Parameters

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

542-553

Information and Communication Technology-EurAsia Conference

Bali, Indonesia

2014

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Cryptanalysis of Unidirectional Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

564-575

Information and Communication Technology-EurAsia Conference

Bali, Indonesia

2014

Prashant Kumar Mishra, Kunwar Singh, Sudhanshu Baruntar

ID-Based Threshold Signcryption and Group Unsigncryption

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

35-44

International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

Trivandrum, India

2012

Kunwar Singh, C. Pandu Rangan, A. K. Banerjee

Adaptively Secure Efficient Lattice (H)IBE in Standard Model with Short Public Parameters

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

153-172

Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering

Chennai, India

2012

Kunwar Singh

Identity-based signcryption revisited

IEEE

1-7

International Conference on Information Technology and e-Services (ICITeS’2012)

Sousse, Tunisia

2012

Contact Address

Kunwar Singh,
Associate Professor,
Room No : CSE 205,
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering,
National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirapalli -620015.