I am a masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and an active researcher in Cyber-Security. Currently, I am working with Haadi Jafarian, Assistant Professor and the Director of Active Cyber and Infrastructure Defense (ACID) lab
at the University of Colorado Denver.
I received my Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna in 2017 where I was a researcher in Applied Cryptography, specifically Password Security and Privacy in Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) Authentication Systems.
My research interests encompass a wide range of topics, mostly in the field of Mathematics and Computer Science, but not limited to Security and Privacy. I am also quite interested in other fields of Computer Science such as Software-Defined Networks, Deep Learning, Image processing, Internet of Things, etc.
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Designing novel Cryptographic Systems.
Novel User-Authentication systems.
Designing Advanced threat-detection systems.
Designing powerful methods of Cyber-Deception.
Security for Networks and Internet-of-Things.
Security of Software-Defined Networks.
Security and Usability Analysis of Cryptographic Systems.
xkTree: Designed a Tree-based password hashing algorithm that can be used to detect offline brute force attacks much effectively than ordinary hashes.
Dual Gate: Designed a Two-Layered User - Authentication Protocol, Arranged in The Form of a Distributed System to Detect and Trap Adverseries and at the same time Facilitating Password Re-use.
Distribution Tamper: Designed a Lossy Transformation and Zero-Loss Recovery Protocol to Withstand Frequency Attacks on Substitution Ciphers.
FIRE: Designed a Highly Secure, Flexible length, Hybrid Encryption Algorithm that outperforms all existing Block and Stream ciphers.
Built a Portscanner detector using Python.
ICT4D: Developed an Web-Appication using Asp.Net and C# for an Audience With Less or No Knowledge of Technology.
Designed a Picture-Based Password Protocol with High Usability.
Created a Library in C using OpenSSL, to Compute Private Record Linkage of Distributed Medical Data.
Implemented Cluster Smoothing for Resistance Against Frequency Attacks.
Working with various security intelligence tools like Panorama, Logrhythm, Sourcefire, etc to analyze the cyber attacks being launched on the University.
Working on building deception systems that can be used to trap adversaries, slow them up and learn their intentions.
XK-Pro: A process-manager equipped with the power of killing, suspicious processes that disables the orginal taskmanager. Effective against worm32.
XK-Note: A text-editor having all the facilities of a basic text-editor, including night-mode.
Information Hub: An online student-faculty iteractive-learning management system like Canvas.
StrategeX: A strategy game designed using Unity, for android devices.
The Treasure Island: A Treasure Hunt game built using Flask, Python and Bootstrap.
XkBot: A TCP botnet that opens a backdoor for remote access, while disguising itself as a chat-client,
Theoretically Limitless Hash: Designed TLH a powerful uniformly dense, hashing algorithm that can be used for generating any length hash.
A Novel Permutational Sampling Technique for Cooperative Network Scanning, Haadi Jafarian, Kuntal Das. 17th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2019
MobSecure: A Shoulder-Surfing Safe Login Approach Implemented on Mobile Device, Nilesh Chakraborty, Gurpinder Singh Randhawa, Kuntal Das, Samrat Mondal. 6th International Conference On Advances In Computing & Communications, ICACC 2016
D3CyT: Deceptive Camouflaging for Cyber Threat Detection and Deterrence, Kuntal Das, Ellen Gethner, Ersin Dincelli, Haadi Jafarian, FICC 2021
Joint coordinator of Pixxel, the Photography Club of IIT PATNA.
Coordinator of Creative's and Design Wing of Anwesha (The techno-cultural carnival of IIT PATNA).
Organiser and question setter of NJATH (An online Treasure/Crypt hunt of IIT PATNA).
Joint coordinator of Web Team of Rural Technology Development Club IIT PATNA(RTDC).
Research Intern in Privacy at CRISP (Colorado Research Institute for Security and Privacy).
Research Associate in Web Application Designing at UNNAYAN: A Sustainable Development project under Arizona State University.
Intern at Security Operations Division, Office of Infromation, Security, UC Denver/CU Anschutz.
Research Assisstant at ACID Lab (Active Cyber and Infrastructure Defense Lab), University of Colorado, Denver.
Teaching Assisstant for Graduate Algorithms Course, University of Colorado, Denver.
Apart from academics, I have a good amount of interest in a lot other activities. I love travelling a lot. I am a photographer as well. I am a chef, especially good in Indian and Chinese. I love playing music on my guitar, both acoustic and electric. I aslo like composing my own songs. Apart from that, I have a good knowledge and experience in nutrition and workouts. Furthermore, I am also good in graphic designing. I used to create posters and logos for college events and clubs respectively.
Here is my instagram id as a summary of my activities. TheCreativeEngineerXkdash. I also have a Youtube channel CyberExplore dedicated to teaching cybersecurity in simple terms.