My ramblings when I was doing my gradschool research :)

1. What the hell am I doing?
A phd contemplation
CG – May 29th 2009

2. Title
• Blalalalalalala about crypto. Elliptic
curve.
• Make it fits constrained devices
[constrained devices = some tiny little
spaces about 1mm2]

3. Research Questions
• Implementing ECC is ain’t simple.
Especially in constrained devices.
• How do you know that it’s secure and
implemented securely? [as if anybody
cares]

4. Problems (of doing the thesis)
• Lack of ability to explain to other
people about what I am doing.
• Too many interesting distractions
along the way.
• Still cannot manage how to do
deductive and inductive philosophical
way alternately.

5. Hypothesis
• There is exist some (generic) algorithm
to implement ECC.
• Different implementation algorithms
determine different level of security.

6. Methods (to solve the problems)
•
Improve an architecture to be
resistance against side channel
attacks.

7. Contribution
• Everything has been done by other
people! And I’m running out of time!

8. Summary
• I’m supposed to build a race motor while
I’m distracted with the spare parts.
• I have to work twice or three times as
hard, to build the race motor at day and
do the spare parts at night.
• The strategy: pick up a race motor that
has won every competition, then
determine its efficiency and find out ways
to make it more efficient.