Berk Sunar

Professor

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Education:

BS Middle East Technical University 1995

PhD Oregon State University 1998

I received my PhD in ECE from Oregon State University in December 1998 and worked briefly as a member of the research faculty at OSU's Information Security Laboratory. In 2000 I joined WPI as an assistant professor. My research interests include cryptography and data security; I head the Cryptography and Information Security Laboratory, whose mission is to address security problems and develop new security technologies to ensure the safety of all facets of the communication and computing infrastructure.

sunar@wpi.edu

Office Location

Atwater Kent 302

Contact

Phone:

+1 (508) 8315000 x5494

Research Lab

Cryptography & Information Security (CRIS) Laboratory

Berk Sunar, WPI Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering | Research Topics

Security in the Cloud

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Cryptography

Network Security

High Performance Computing

Scholarly Work

Transparent Code Authentication at the Processor Level - 2009

Memory Leakage-Resilient Encryption Based on Physically Unclonable Functions, Frederik Armknecht, Roel Maes, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Berk Sunar and Pim Tuyls, In: Matsui, M (eds). Proceedings of AsiaCrypt 2009, pp. 685-702, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-10, 2009.

Arbitrage-free pricing of XVA - Part II: PDE representation and numerical analysis, with M. Bichuch and A. Capponi (submitted; Preprint, 19 pages, 4 figures; also available at SSRN; arXiv)

Ghaith Hammouri, Aykutlu Dana, Berk Sunar, CDs Have Fingerprints Too. In: Clavier, C., Gaj, K., (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2009), LNCS, vol. 5747, pp. 348-362, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2009)

A.O. Durahim, E. Savas, B. Sunar, , T. B. Pedersen, O. Kocabas Transparent Code Authentication at the Processor Level, IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 354-372, July 2009.

Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar. PUF-HB: A Tamper-Resilient HB based Authentication Protocol Applied Cryptography and Network Security: Proceedings, Steven M. Bellovin et al (Eds., 6th International Conference, ACNS 2008, LNCS 5037, pp. 346-365, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

Professional Highlights & Honors

Professional Highlights & Honors:

IEEE Computer Society

International Association of Cryptologic Research

News

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Year in Review: WPI in the News

December 19, 2019

WPI security researchers Berk Sunar (left) and Daniel Moghimi discovered security vulnerabilities in computer chips made by Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics.

Researchers Discover Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Computer Chips

November 12, 2019

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announces $5 million capital grant for PracticePoint at WPI

April 13, 2017

Keeping the Clouds from Leaking

January 13, 2017

Media Coverage

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The Register

Don't trust the Trusted Platform Module – it may leak your VPN server's private key (depending on your configuration)

The Register reported on Berk Sunar, professor of electrical and computer engineering and leader of the Vernam Lab, and Daniel Moghimi, a PhD candidate in the electrical and computer engineering department, leading an international team of researchers that discovered serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips made by Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics. The flaws affect billions of laptop, server, tablet, and desktop users around the world. The proof-of-concept attack is dubbed TPM-Fail.