Website of Chuck Easttom, Ph.D., D.Sc.

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Dr. Easttom's Work in Cryptography
Easttom, C. (2022). Modern cryptography: applied mathematics for encryption and information security. Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer
Easttom, C. (2025, March). Quantum Resistant Cryptography and Cyberwarfare. In International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (pp. 71-78). Academic Conferences International Limited.
Easttom, C. (2019, January). An analysis of leading lattice-based asymmetric cryptographic primitives. In 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) (pp. 0811-0818). IEEE.
Easttom, C. (2018, May). A study of cryptographic backdoors in cryptographic primitives. In Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Iranian Conference on (pp. 1664-1669). IEEE.
Easttom, C. (2018, January). A generalized methodology for designing non-linear elements in symmetric cryptographic primitives. In 2018 IEEE 8th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) (pp. 444-449). IEEE.
Easttom, C. (2018, May). An examination of inefficiencies in key dependent variations of the Rijndael S-Box. In Electrical engineering (ICEE), Iranian conference on (pp. 1658-1663). IEEE.
Easttom, C. (2017). AN OVERVIEW OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC BACKDOORS. Journal of Information System Security, 13(3).
Easttom, C., Ibrahim, A., Chefranov, A., Alsmadi, I., & Hansen, R. (2020). Towards a deeper NTRU analysis: a multi modal analysis. International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security (IJCIS), 10(2), 11-22.
Easttom, C. (2022, January). NTRU and lash for a quantum resistant blockchain. In 2022 IEEE 12th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) (pp. 0654-0658). IEEE.
Links
Kahn Acadmey Cryptography for Beginners
Stanford Online Cryptography Course with Dr. Dan Boneh
Coursera Cryptography with Dr. Dan Boneh
International Association for Cryptographic Research
Standards
FIPS 197 AES
NIST SP 800-38D — GCM and GMAC
FIPS 180-4 — Secure Hash Standard (SHA-1/SHA-2 family)
FIPS 202 — SHA-3 Standard
FIPS 186-5 — Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
RFC 8017 — PKCS #1 v2.2: RSA Cryptography Specifications
FIPS 203 — ML-KEM
FIPS 204 — ML-DSA
FIPS 205 — SLH-DSA
FIPS 140-3 — Security Requirements for Cryptographic Module
RFC 8446 — TLS 1.3