About me

Feng is my first name. I obtained the PhD degree in 2007 under the supervision of Prof Ross Anderson and John Daugman.

Here is the PhD dissertation that I managed to complete within the official timeline of nine terms.

Publications

• F. Hao, P. Ryan, "Password Authenticated Key Exchange by Juggling", accepted by the 16th Workshop on Security Protocols, Cambridge, April 2008. [paper]
  • It proposes a crypto protocol called Password Authenticated Key Exchange by Juggling (J-PAKE). The essence of design inherits from my earlier work (with Piotr Zielinski) on solving the Dining Cryptographers problem. Compared with EKE (patented by Lucent Technologies) and SPEKE (patented by Phoenix Technologies), J-PAKE has clear advantages in security with comparable efficiency. It is submitted as a follow-on to the future extension of IEEE Standard P1363.2.
  
  
• F. Hao, J. Daugman, P. Zielinski, "A fast search algorithm for a large fuzzy database," to be published on IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, June 2008. [Preprint]
  • It proposes an efficient search algorithm for iris recognition, which achieves a substantial speed-up over exhaustive search with a negligible loss of precision.
  
  
• F. Hao, "Kish's key exchange scheme is insecure," IEE Information Security, Vol. 153, No. 4, pp. 141--142, December 2006. [Paper]
  • It points out that a "totally secure" communication system, featured in Science, is seriously flawed.
  
  
• F. Hao, P. Zielinski, "The power of anonymous veto in public discussion," [draft].
  • It's a journal version of the below paper.
  
  
• F. Hao, P. Zielinski, "A 2-round anonymous veto protocol," 14th International Workshop on Security Protocols, Cambridge (2006)[Paper] [Slides]
  • It proposes an efficient solution to the Dining Cryptographers problem (Chaum, 1988), achieving the best efficiency among all available solutions.
  
  
• F. Hao, R. Anderson, J. Daugman, "Combining crypto with biometrics effectively," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1081--1088, Sept., 2006. [IEEE] [report]
  • It proposes the first practical and secure way to integrate the iris biometric into cryptographic applications.
  
  
• F. Hao, "Combining crypto with biometrics: a new human-security interface," [Transcript of discussion] 13th International Workshop on Security Protocols, LNCS 4631, pp. 133-138, 2005.
  • It presents a transcript of discussion on combining crypto with biometrics.
  
  
• F. Hao, C.W. Chan, "Online signature verification using a new extreme points warping technique," Pattern Recognition Letters,  Vol 24, Issue 16, 2943-2951 (2003) [Paper]
• It modifies the classic Dynamic Programming algorithm to better suit the requirements of handwritten signature verification.


• F. Hao, C.W. Chan, "Private Key Generation from On-line Handwritten Signatures," Information Management & Computer Security, Vol 10, Issue 4, 159-164 (2002) [Paper]
• It proposes to apply quantization to derive stable bits from handwritten signatures.


• F. Hao, C.W. Chan, "A Novel Usage of On-line Handwritten Signatures," Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communication System, Computer and Circuit, CSCC July 2002, Crete [paper]
• A preliminary conference paper on deriving stable bits from handwritten signatures.

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