Major Qualifying Projects

Let's begin with the most recent:

MQPs Completed at WPI under Professor Martin:

• "Semidefinite programming and its application to the sensor network localization problem" MQP WJM9800 (by Elizabeth Hegarty)
  • PDF file (Completed April 2010)
• "Differential power analysis side-channel attacks in cryptography" MQP BS2 0903 (Authors: William Hnath and Jordan Pettengill; Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar; Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems).
  • PDF file (Completed April 2010)
• "SRAM PUF analysis and fuzzy extractors" MQP WJM5000 (Authors: Isaac Edwards, Patrick Newell and Christopher Trufan. Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar. Industrial Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems).
  • PDF file (Completed March 2010)
• "A study of linear programming bounds for spherical codes" (by Aaron Nahabedian and Nadia Zahid).
  • PDF file (1.0M) (Completed April 2009)
• "Authentication schemes based on physically unclonable functions" (by Matthew Dailey and Ilan Shomorony).
  • PDF file (5.2M) (Completed April 2009)
• "Several notions of near indepedence for discrete random variables" (by Matthew Houde).
  • PDF file (5.2M) (Completed April 2009)
• "Model checking for role-based access control" (by Eric Griffel and Paul Sader. Primary advisor: Daniel Dougherty, CS)
  • PDF file (4.2M) (Completed April 2007)
• ``Almost orthogonal vectors in euclidean space'' (by Matthew Cheung).
  • PDF file (0.4M) (Completed April 2005)
• `` A mathematical and physical analysis of circuit jitter with application to cryptographic random bit generation'' (Authors: Wayne Coppock and Colin Philbrook. Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar. Industrial Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems).
  • PDF file (1.1M)
  • Word file (0.8M) (Completed April 2005)
• ``Evaluation of random number generators on FPGAs '' (by Brian Abcunas, Sean Coughlin, Gary Pedro and David Reisberg. Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar. Industrial Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems).
  • PDF file (1.4M)
  • Word file (0.83M) (Completed April 2004)
• "Performance evaluation of block ciphers" (by Seung Wook Kim and Jeffrey Popham. Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar. Industrial Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems). Completed 2003.
• "Random number generator test suite" (Authors: Kevin Thompson and Glenn Townsend. Co-Advisor: Berk Sunar. Industrial Sponsor: General Dynamics C4 Systems). Completed 2002.
• "Combinatorial structures in cryptography" (by Seth Hardy). Completed 2002.