This dissertation examines the transformative and decolonizing potential of Indigenous art-making and creativity to resist ongoing forms of settler colonialism and advance Indigenous nationhood and resurgence. Through a transdisciplinary investigation of contemporary Indigenous art, aesthetics, performance, music, hip-hop and remix culture, the project explores indigeneity’s opaque transits, trajectories, and fugitive forms. In resistance to the demands and limits imposed by settler colonial power upon Indigenous artists to perform indigeneity according to settler colonial logics, the project examines creative acts of affirmative refusal (or creative negation) that enact a resistant force against the masked dance of Empire by refusing forms of visibility and subjectivity that render indigeneity vulnerable to commodification and control. Through extensive interviews with Indigenous artists, musicians, and collectives working in a range of disciplinary backgrounds across Turtle Island, I stage an Indigenous intervention into multiple discursive forms of knowledge production and analysis, by cutting into and across the fields of Indigenous studies, contemporary art and aesthetics, performance studies, critical theory, political philosophy, sound studies, and hip-hop scholarship. The project seeks to elaborate decolonial political potentialities that are latent in the enfolded act of creation which, for Indigenous artists, both constellate new forms of community, while also affirming deep continuities within Indigenous practices of collective, creative expression. Against the colonial injunction to ‘represent’ indigeneity according to a determinate set of coordinates, I argue that Indigenous art-making and creativity function as the noise to colonialism’s signal: a force capable of disrupting colonial legibility and the repeated imposition of the normative order. Such force gains power through movement and action; it is in the act of turning away from the colonial state, and toward one another, that spaces of generative indeterminacy become possible. In the decolonial cypher, I claim, new forms of being elsewhere and otherwise have the potential to be realized and decolonized. / Graduate / 0357 / 0413 / 0615 / martij@uvic.ca

Applications of finite-field wavelets, paraunitary matrices, and multivariate polynomials in the design of efficient cryptographic algorithms for resource-limited devices and wireless sensor nodes is the main topic of this thesis. In this research, multivariate paraunitary matrices over fields of characteristic two are of special importance. Therefore, the factorization of their bivariate counterpart into the product of fully-parameterized building blocks was studied. Result were a two-level factorization algorithm and new building blocks over the ring of polynomials that allow a complete first-level factorization. One of the contributions in this thesis was a completely new design for self-synchronizing stream ciphers based on wavelets over fields of characteristic two. Since these wavelets can be efficiently designed and implemented using paraunitary matrices, the designed cipher is highly efficient in terms of encryption and decryption complexities. The cryptanalysis of the proposed cipher did not reveal any vulnerabilities to the current state of the art attacks developed for stream ciphers. A completely novel framework for the design of multivariate asymmetric cryptosystems (based on paraunitary matrices) is a main contribution in this thesis. Using algebraic properties of paraunitary matrices, the computational security of systems designed based on this framework was studied. It was proved, for the first time, that breaking any instance of such systems provides a positive answer to an algebraic longstanding (non- computational) open problem. Therefore, the proposed framework certainly is an improvement toward the design of provably secure multivariate cryptosystems. Using this approach, a public-key cryptosystem and a digital signature scheme was proposed. Considering the attractiveness of algebraic techniques, their applications in the design of cryptographic algorithms for wireless sensor networks was investigated. A novel key pre-distribution scheme for data confidentiality in sensor networks was proposed. This scheme outperforms all previous designs in terms of network resiliency against the node capture. Theoretical analysis showed improvement over previous schemes and also robustness in design. In addition to key pre-distribution, a location-aware scheme was proposed that provides authenticity and availability for sensor networks. Main ingredients of this scheme are node collaboration for entity authenticity, hash tree for data authenticity, and random network coding for data availability. This scheme is the first one in its category that provides a practical solution to all the aforementioned security services.

Cette thèse porte sur les liens entre les codes correcteurs d'erreurs et les matrices de diffusion linéaires utilisées en cryptographie symétrique. L'objectif est d'étudier les constructions possibles de codes MDS additifs définis sur le groupe (Fm2, +) des m-uplets binaires et de minimiser le coût de l'implémentation matérielle ou logicielles de ces matrices de diffusion. Cette thèse commence par l'étude des codes définis sur un anneau de polynômes du type F[x]/f(x), qui généralisent les codes quasi-cycliques. Elle se poursuit par l'étude des codes additifs systématiques définis sur (Fm2, +) et leur lien avec la diffusion linéaire en cryptographie symétrique. Un point important de la thèse est l'introduction de codes à coefficient dans l'anneau des endomorphismes de Fm2. Le lien entre les codes qui sont des sous-modules à gauche et les codes additifs est mis en évidence. La dernière partie porte sur l'étude et la construction de matrices de diffusion MDS ayant de bonnes propriétés pour la cryptographie, à savoir les matrices circulantes, les matrices dyadiques, ainsi que les matrices ayant des représentations creuses minimisant leur implémentation. / This PhD focuses on the links between error correcting codes and diffusion matrices used in cryptography symmetric. The goal is to study the possible construction of additives MDS codes defined over the group (Fm2, +) of binary m-tuples and minimize cost of hardware or software implementation of these diffusion matrices. This thesis begins with the study of codes defined over the polynomial ring F[x]/f(x), these codes are a generalization of quasi-cyclic codes, and continues with the study of additive systematic codes over (Fm2, +) and there relation with linear diffusion on symmetric cryptography. An important point of this thesis is the introduction of codes with coefficients in the ring of endomorphisms of Fm2. The link between codes which are a left-submodules and additive codes have been identified. The last part focuses on the study and construction of efficient diffusion MDS matrices for the cryptographic applications, namely the circulantes matrices, dyadic matrices, and matrices with hollow representation, in ordre to minimize their implementations.

This dissertation investigates four methods for attacking stream ciphers that are based on nonlinear combining generators: -- Two exhaustive-search correlation attacks, based on the binary derivative and the Lempel-Ziv complexity measure. -- A fast-correlation attack utilizing the Viterbi algorithm -- A decimation attack, that can be combined with any of the above three attacks. These are ciphertext-only attacks that exploit the correlation that occurs between the ciphertext and an internal linear feedback shift-register (LFSR) of a stream cipher. This leads to a so-called divide and conquer attack that is able to reconstruct the secret initial states of all the internal LFSRs within the stream cipher. The binary derivative attack and the Lempel-Ziv attack apply an exhaustive search to find the secret key that is used to initialize the LFSRs. The binary derivative and the Lempel-Ziv complexity measures are used to discriminate between correct and incorrect solutions, in order to identify the secret key. Both attacks are ideal for implementation on parallel processors. Experimental results show that the Lempel-Ziv correlation attack gives successful results for correlation levels of p = 0.482, requiring approximately 62000 ciphertext bits. And the binary derivative attack is successful for correlation levels of p = 0.47, using approximately 24500 ciphertext bits. The fast-correlation attack, utilizing the Viterbi algorithm, applies principles from convolutional coding theory, to identify an embedded low-rate convolutional code in the pn-sequence that is generated by an internal LFSR. The embedded convolutional code can then be decoded with a low complexity Viterbi algorithm. The algorithm operates in two phases: In the first phase a set of suitable parity check equations is found, based on the feedback taps of the LFSR, which has to be done once only once for a targeted system. In the second phase these parity check equations are utilized in a Viterbi decoding algorithm to recover the transmitted pn-sequence, thereby obtaining the secret initial state of the LFSR. Simulation results for a 19-bit LFSR show that this attack can recover the secret key for correlation levels of p = 0.485, requiring an average of only 153,448 ciphertext bits. All three attacks investigated in this dissertation are capable of attacking LFSRs with a length of approximately 40 bits. However, these attacks can be extended to attack much longer LFSRs by making use of a decimation attack. The decimation attack is able to reduce (decimate) the size of a targeted LFSR, and can be combined with any of the three above correlation attacks, to attack LFSRs with a length much longer than 40 bits. / Dissertation (MEng (Electronic Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering / unrestricted

The main aim of this thesis was to study, choose and decribe techniques eligible for cryptography education. A pedagogically appropriate presentation for the selected techniques' principles was to be chosen. Another goal was to create an integrated modular web interface containing a calculator focused on cryptographic operations. The eligibility of techniques was assessed accordingly to the computing processes implied by these techniques and also accordingly to the ability of being presented in an illustrative way. A program simplifying calculations used in symetric and asymetric cryptography was designed and implemented. It disposes of a web interface and one of its parts is focused on steganographic techniques. On the other hand, any pedagogically appropriate presentation interconnecting this program with theoretical findings from this field was not found.

This diploma’s thesis discourses the cryptographic systems and ciphers, whose function, usage and practical implementation are analysed. In the first chapter basic cryptographic terms, symmetric and asymetric cryptographic algorithms and are mentioned. Also usage and reliability are analysed. Following chapters mention substitution, transposition, block and stream ciphers, which are elementary for most cryptographic algorithms. There are also mentioned the modes, which the ciphers work in. In the fourth chapter are described the principles of some chosen cryptographic algorithms. The objective is to make clear the essence of the algorithms’ behavior. When describing some more difficult algorithms the block scheme is added. At the end of each algorithm’s description the example of practical usage is written. The chapter no. five discusses the hardware implementation. Hardware and software implementation is compared from the practical point of view. Several design instruments are described and different hardware design programming languages with their progress, advantages and disadvantages are mentioned. Chapter six discourses the hardware implementation design of chosen ciphers. Concretely the design of stream cipher with pseudo-random sequence generator is designed in VHDL and also in Matlab. As the second design was chosen the block cipher GOST, which was designed in VHDL too. Both designs were tested and verified and then the results were summarized.

The main goal of this master's thesis is building of web portal for presentation basic cryptography algorithms. Those algorithms would be explained in the theoretical page in the first place. After that, they would be demonstrated by scripts. One part of this project is designing simplified theoretical element for basic impletion portal of information. Next part is creating web portal by one of the free available CMS´s systems. Programming language JAVA would be used as an instrument for creating demonstration scripts. For creating animations will be used the Flash animation tool. Target of formed web portal is creating community of expert public. It would make new articles, scripts and knowledge. This way, the portal would be kept current. The section which would include failure the most widely used algorithms and instructions how to eliminate it will be part of portal.

Les algorithmes cryptographiques actuels se répartissent en deux grandes familles : les algorithmes symétriques et les algorithmes asymétriques. En 1991, S. Even et Y. Mansour ont proposé une construction simple d'un algorithme de chiffrement par blocs en utilisant une permutation aléatoire. Récemment, surtout pour répondre aux nouveaux enjeux de la cryptographie à bas coût, plusieurs algorithmes ont été proposés dont la construction est basée sur le schéma Even-Mansour. Les travaux réalisés dans cette thèse ont pour objet l'analyse de ce type d'algorithmes. À cette fin, nous proposons une nouvelle attaque générique sur le schéma Even-Mansour. Ensuite, afin de montrer l'importance particulière du modèle multi-utilisateurs, nous appliquons cette attaque générique dans ce modèle. Ces deux attaques sur Even-Mansour introduisent deux nouvelles idées algorithmiques : les chaînes parallèles et la construction d'un graphe qui illustre les liens entre les clés des utilisateurs du modèle multi-utilisateurs. Finalement, basés sur ces idées, nous proposons des attaques sur les algorithmes de chiffrement par blocs DESX et PRINCE et sur le code d'authentification de message Chaskey. / Current cryptographic algorithms are divided into two families: secret-key algorithms (or symmetric algorithms) and public-key algorithms. Secret-key cryptography is characterized by the sharing of the same key K used by both legitimate users of the cryptosystem. Bloc ciphers are one of the main primitives of symmetric cryptography. In 1991, S. Even and Y. Mansour proposed a minimal construction of a bloc cipher which uses a random permutation. Recently, in the context of lightweight cryptography, many algorithms based on the Even-Mansour scheme have been proposed. In this thesis, we focus on the analysis of this type of algorithms. To this purpose, we propose a generic attack on the Even-Mansour scheme. To show the particular importance of the multi-user model, we adapt our attack to this context. With these attacks, we introduce two new algorithmic ideas: the parallel chains and the construction of graph which represents the relations between the keys of the users of the multi-user model. Finally, we use these ideas and we present attacks on the bloc ciphers DESX and PRINCE and on the message authentication code (MAC) Chaskey.

Un nombre important et en constante augmentation de systèmes numériques nous entoure. Tablettes, smartphones et objets connectés ne sont que quelques exemples apparents de ces technologies omniprésentes, dont la majeure partie est enfouie, invisible à l'utilisateur. Les microprocesseurs, au cœur de ces systèmes, sont soumis à de fortes contraintes en ressources, sûreté de fonctionnement et se doivent, plus que jamais, de proposer une sécurité renforcée. La tâche est d'autant plus complexe qu'un tel système, par sa proximité avec l'utilisateur, offre une large surface d'attaque.Cette thèse, se concentre sur une propriété essentielle attendue pour un tel système, la confidentialité, le maintien du secret du programme et des données qu'il manipule. En effet, l'analyse du programme, des instructions qui le compose, est une étape essentielle dans la conception d'une attaque. D'autre part, un programme est amené à manipuler des données sensibles (clés cryptographiques, mots de passes, ...), qui doivent rester secrètes pour ne pas compromettre la sécurité du système.Cette thèse, se concentre sur une propriété essentielle attendue pour un tel système, la confidentialité, le maintien du secret du programme et des données qu'il manipule. Une première contribution de ces travaux est une méthode de chiffrement d'un code, basée sur le graphe de flot de contrôle, rendant possible l'utilisation d'algorithmes de chiffrement par flots, légers et efficaces. Protéger les accès mémoires aux données d'un programme s'avère plus complexe. Dans cette optique, nous proposons l'utilisation d'un chiffrement homomorphe pour chiffrer les données stockées en mémoire et les maintenir sous forme chiffrée lors de l'exécution des instructions. Enfin, nous présenterons l'intégration de ces propositions dans une architecture de processeur et les résultats d'évaluation sur logique programmable (FPGA) avec plusieurs programmes d'exemples. / Embedded processors are today ubiquitous, dozen of them compose and orchestrate every technology surrounding us, from tablets to smartphones and a large amount of invisible ones. At the core of these systems, processors gather data, process them and interact with the outside world. As such, they are excepted to meet very strict safety and security requirements. From a security perspective, the task is even more difficult considering the user has a physical access to the device, allowing a wide range of specifically tailored attacks.Confidentiality, in terms of both software code and data is one of the fundamental properties expected for such systems. The first contribution of this work is a software encryption method based on the control flow graph of the program. This enables the use of stream ciphers to provide lightweight and efficient encryption, suitable for constrained processors. The second contribution is a data encryption mechanism based on homomorphic encryption. With this scheme, sensible data remain encrypted not only in memory, but also during computations. Then, the integration and evaluation of these solutions on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with some example programs will be discussed.

In this thesis there is description of cryptographic algorithms. Their properties are being compared, weak and strong points and right usage of particular algorithms. The main topics are safeness of algorithms, their bugs and improvements and difficulty of breaching. As a complement to ciphers there are also hash functions taken in consideration. There are also showed the most common methods of cryptanalysis. As a practical application of described algorithms I analyze systems for secure data transfer SSH and SSL/TLS and demonstrate an attack on SSL connection. In conclusion there is recommendation of safe algorithms for further usage and safe parameters of SSH and SSL/TLS connections.