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Lecturer

Hayder Touran Assafli

Research Interests

Bandgap engineering

semiconductors

optical fibers

field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)

lasers

wireless communications

Cryptography

Gender MALE
Place of Work Technical Engineering College for Computer and AI / Kirkuk
Position Head of Department
Qualification Ph.d
Speciality Electronics and Communication Engineering
Email hayder.assafli@ntu.edu.iq
Phone 07728543062
Address Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Iraq
About Me

Hayder Assafli was born in 1987 in the southern Iraqi governorate of Dhi-Qar and raised in the northern governorate of Kirkuk. Dr. Assafli graduated from Baghdad College High School, one of Iraq's most highly regarded preparatory schools. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Laser and Optoelectronics Engineering from the University of Technology in Baghdad. Mr. Assafli worked as an engineer and a teaching assistant at the same university before traveling to the United States to continue his studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he completed his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2013. Dr. Assafli obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Technology in Baghdad, specializing in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He currently works in the Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering at Northern Technical University.

Languages

Arabic (95%)
Turkish (95%)
English (90%)

Skills

Matlab (90%)
Assembly Reverse Engineering (75%)
PC Maintenance (90%)
Office Programs (95%)
working experience

Academic Qualification

Bachelor of Science in Laser Engineering
Sep 1, 2004 - Jun 30, 2008

Bachelor of Science in Laser Engineering

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Aug 14, 2010 - May 30, 2013

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Ph. D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Sep 1, 2018 - May 23, 2023

Ph. D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Working Experience

Lab Assistant [Engineer]
Jul 28, 2009 - Jun 1, 2010

Arrange Lab Experiments, Grade Reports, Help students with experiments, Maintain Lab Equipment

Lectures and Lab [Assistant Lecturer]
May 13, 2013 - Jun 30, 2018

Lecturing different subjects such as Microprocessor, Digital electronics. Analog Communication, Digital Communication

Head of Department [Head of Department]
Aug 4, 2025 - Present

Manage a scientific department.

Publications

Security enhancement of AES-CBC and its performance evaluation using the avalanche effect
Dec 21, 2021

Journal 2020 3rd International Conference on Engineering Technology and its Applications, IICETA 2020

publisher IEEE

DOI 10.1109/IICETA50496.2020.9318803

The security of communication systems is becoming a significant concern with the increase in computational power. High-security cryptographic algorithms are required to protect the privacy of information from unauthorized access. This paper presents a security enhancement of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode and its performance evaluation using the Avalanche Effect. In this study, a new improved technique for increasing the security of the AES-CBC is introduced. The Unix time is used as a source for Initialization Vector (IV) in CBC mode before encryption rounds. The results showed that the algorithm generates different ciphertext at each execution. In other words, different ciphertext output significantly decreases the risk of cracking the encryption key. Moreover, the results are examined using the Avalanche Effect and tested for satisfying the security criteria. The achieved results showed that the encryption method succeeds in maintaining the avalanche effect requirement and introducing additional strength to the encryption process by preventing the encryption key update for every new ciphertext.

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Generation and Evaluation of a New Time-Dependent Dynamic S-Box Algorithm for AES Block Cipher Cryptosystems
Dec 9, 2020

Journal IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

publisher IOP

DOI 10.1088/1757-899X/978/1/012042

Cryptographic communication systems depend extensively on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher algorithm. The encryption strength in the AES algorithm is derived from the nonlinearity introduced by the application of s-boxes inside the encryption process. Today, most s-boxes are either static in which the s-box content does not change during the encryption process or dynamic which continuously changes depending on the encryption key. Two major problems exist in such systems that increase the risk of unauthorized decryption. First, the encryption of the same data yields the same cipher key repeatedly. Seconds, the key-dependent s-boxes require sharing the encryption key each time a new s-box is generated. In this paper, a dynamic s-box is introduced that constantly changes independent of the encryption key. The new s-box depends on the epoch timestamp that exists in every digital system as well as transmitted with digital satellite communication systems. The generation of the nonlinear s-box occurs inside the transmitter and receiver identically. The main strength of the proposed approach is that the ciphertext changes while keeping the encryption key constant ensuring different encryption results for the same data. This paper also investigates and analyzes the strength and quality of the new s-box using the avalanche effect method. The results showed that different ciphertext is produced after every encryption process. Moreover, the modified dynamic s-box reached a high avalanche effect exceeding the Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC).

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