I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. My areas of interest are cryptography and information security. My office hours in Spring 2008 are 11:00am - 12:30pm MW and 3:30pm - 5:00pm R. Here are two photos of me, one taken when I was in bed and one taken when I was taking a rest. Click here for my blog and here for my PGP public key.

Office: Faner 2132
Phone: (618) 453-6032
Fax: (618) 453-6044
Mailcode: 4511
Email: kfong@cs.siu.edu

• Spring 2008
  • CS 202: Introduction to Computer Science
  • CS 408: Applied Cryptography
  • CS 498/499: Senior Project in Computer Science
• Past
  • CS 202: Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 03, Spring 04, Fall 05, Fall 07)
  • CS 220: Programming with Data Structures (Fall 03, Spring 04, Fall 04, Spring 05, Summer 05, Fall 05, Spring 06)
  • CS 301: Introduction to Visual Basic (Fall 06)
  • CS 304: Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (Fall 07)
  • CS 306: Linux/UNIX Programming (Fall 06, Spring 07)
  • CS 311: Design and Implementation of Programming Languages (Fall 04, Fall 05, Spring 07)
  • CS 408: Applied Cryptography (Summer 04, Spring 07)
  • CS 410: Computer Security (Spring 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Fall 07)
  • CS 491: Managing and Maintaining Windows Server Environment and Network Infrastructure (Summer 06)

• Papers
  • Field Inversion and Point Halving Revisited (IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 1047 - 1059, Vol. 53, No. 8)
  • Field Inversion and Point Halving Revisited (CACR Technical Report CORR 2003-18)
  • Potential Security Holes in Hacigumus' Scheme of Executing SQL over Encrypted Data
  • Really Secure Chat, Really!
  • Eliciting Honest Feedback: Empirical Results for Quadratic and Logarithmic Scoring Rules
• Talks
  • Efficient Software Implementation of Point Multiplication on Elliptic Curves
  • Point Halving on Elliptic Curves over Binary Fields
  • RFID Security
  • Secure Electronic Voting
• Essays (I don't write any more, but I put my previous work on fairy tales here due to high Internet demand)
  • The Effect of Classic Fairy Tales on Readers and Society

• Pointers on Cryptography and Information Security
• Cryptography and Information Security Hall of Fame

• Dr. Alfred Menezes and his famous crypto book, Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• Dr. Darrel Hankerson and his book, Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials
• Dr. Ronald Rivest, recipient of Turing Award 2002, and his links to numerous web pages on cryptography and security
• Dr. Michael Rabin, recipient of Turing Award 1976
• Dr. Radia Perlman and her popular security book, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World
• Dr. Douglas Stinson and his famous crypto theory book, Cryptography Theory and Practice
• Dr. Scott Vanstone, founder of Certicom and winner of RSA Award 2001
• Dr. Vahid Tarokh, inventor of space-time coding and recipient of Alan T. Waterman Award 2001
• Dr. David Parkes, renowned researcher in electronic commerce and recipient of IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce Award 2000
• Dr. Keith Geddes, inventor of MAPLE
• Late Dr. William Tutte, leading world figure in graph theory and matroid theory, and codebreaker of the Nazi FISH code
• Dr. William Cunningham and his book, Combinatorial Optimization
• Dr. Jeffrey Shallit and his famous book, Algorithmic Number Theory
• Dr. Dragomir Djokovic, pioneering pure mathematician in Lie algebras