Mamun Akand


Publications

Primarily in information security, cryptography, location privacy, and security.

Publications by Type & Year

All Publications

Preprint 2025 Anonymous Credentials Protocol Security

Securing Credential Sequence Verification

Mamunur Akand, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Cryptology ePrint Archive (Paper 2025/1371)

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/1371,
  author = {Akand, Mamunur and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh},
  title = {Securing Credential Sequence Verification},
  howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/1371},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1371}
}
Journal 2023 Proof-of-Location Privacy Composability

Composable Anonymous Proof-of-Location With User-Controlled Offline Access

Mamunur Akand, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Sepideh Avizheh

IEEE Access 11: 50884–50898

@article{10132439,
  author={Akand, Mamunur and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh and Avizheh, Sepideh},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  title={Composable Anonymous Proof-of-Location With User-Controlled Offline Access},
  year={2023},
  volume={11},
  pages={50884-50898},
  doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3279395},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10132439}
}
Thesis 2023 Thesis Proof-of-Location Privacy

Contribution to Proof-of-Location Systems

Mamunur Akand

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Calgary

@PhDThesis{akand2023contribution,
  author = {Akand, Mamunur},
  title = {Contribution to Proof-of-Location Systems},
  type = {PhD Thesis},
  organization = {Department of Computer Science},
  school = {University of Calgary, Calgary, AB},
  year = {2023},
  month = {May},
  url = {https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/0dcc21e5-67d9-48d6-be28-b6a0078bbf47/content}
}
Journal 2023 Proof-of-Location Geo-Tampering Security

Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Location With Security Against Geo-Tampering

Mamunur Akand, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Marc Kneppers, Matthieu Giraud, Pascal Lafourcade

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 20(1): 131–146

@article{akand2023privacy,
  author={Akand, Mamunur and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh and Kneppers, Marc and Giraud, Matthieu and Lafourcade, Pascal},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
  title={Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Location With Security Against Geo-Tampering},
  year={2023},
  volume={20},
  number={1},
  pages={131-146},
  doi={10.1109/TDSC.2021.3128073},
  url = {https://mamunakand.ca/Publications/akand2023privacy.pdf}
}
Conference 2018 Authentication Region-based Proof-of-Location

In-region authentication

Mamunur Rashid Akand, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

ACNS 2018 (Applied Cryptography and Network Security), Springer

@inproceedings{akand2018region,
  title={In-region authentication},
  author={Akand, Mamunur Rashid and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh},
  booktitle={International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security},
  pages={557--578},
  year={2018},
  organization={Springer}
}
Conference 2018 Distance Bounding Anonymous DB Attacks

New attacks and secure design for anonymous distance-bounding

Ahmad Ahmadi, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Mamunur Rashid Akand

ACISP 2018 (Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy), Springer

@inproceedings{ahmadi2018new,
  title={New attacks and secure design for anonymous distance-bounding},
  author={Ahmadi, Ahmad and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh and Akand, Mamunur Rashid},
  booktitle={Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy},
  pages={598--616},
  year={2018},
  organization={Springer}
}
Preprint 2018 Distance Bounding Anonymous DB Identification

Anonymous Distance-Bounding Identification

Ahmad Ahmadi, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Mamunur Akand

Cryptology ePrint Archive (Paper 2018/365)

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/365,
      author = {Ahmad Ahmadi and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Mamunur Akand},
      title = {Anonymous Distance-Bounding Identification},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/365},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/365}
    }
Poster 2016 CCS Location Verification

POSTER: Privacy enhanced secure location verification

Mamunur Rashid Akand, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

ACM CCS 2016 (SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security)

@inproceedings{akand2016poster,
  title={POSTER: Privacy enhanced secure location verification},
  author={Akand, Mamunur Rashid and Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
  pages={1793--1795},
  year={2016}
}
Thesis 2016 Thesis Distance Bounding Proof-of-Location

In-region Location Verification Using Distance Bounding

Mamunur Rashid Akand

M.Sc. Thesis, University of Calgary

@MastersThesis{akand2016region,
  author = {Akand, Mamunur Rashid},
  title = {In-region Location Verification Using Distance Bounding},
  type = {MSc Thesis},
  organization = {Department of Computer Science},
  school = {University of Calgary, Calgary, AB},
  year = {2016},
  month = {October},
  url = {https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/75014ab3-5fd8-4c5a-b0bf-06ba52718d11/content}
}
Preprint 2014 Networking VANETs Modeling

A Probabilistic Delay Model for Bidirectional VANETs in City Environments

Mamunur Akand, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Md. Rokon Uz Zaman Sumon, Muhammad Mahbub Alam

CoRR (arXiv:1411.2931)

@misc{akand2014probabilistic,
  author = {Mamunur Akand and Mir Tafseer Nayeem and Md. Rokon Uz Zaman Sumon and Muhammad Mahbub Alam},
  title = {A Probabilistic Delay Model for Bidirectional VANETs in City Environments},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/1411.2931},
  year = {2014},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2931},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1411.2931},
  pages = {1--5}
}
Journal 2014 HCI Security Cognition

Human cognition in automated truing test design

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Mamunur Akand, Nazmus Sakib, Wasi Ul Kabir

International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI) 6(4): 1–19

@article{nayeem2014human,
  title={Human cognition in automated truing test design},
  author={Nayeem, Mir Tafseer and Akand, Mamunur and Sakib, Nazmus and Kabir, Wasi Ul},
  journal={International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI)},
  volume={6},
  number={4},
  pages={1--19},
  year={2014},
  publisher={IGI Global}
}
Conference 2014 HIP/CAPTCHA Cognition Security

Design of a Human Interaction Proof (HIP) using human cognition in contextual natural conversation

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Mamunur Akand, Nazmus Sakib, Md Wasi Ul Kabir

IEEE ICCI*CC 2014 (Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing)

@inproceedings{nayeem2014design,
  title={Design of a Human Interaction Proof (HIP) using human cognition in contextual natural conversation},
  author={Nayeem, Mir Tafseer and Akand, Mamunur and Sakib, Nazmus and Kabir, Md Wasi Ul},
  booktitle={2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing},
  pages={146--154},
  year={2014},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Contact

Waterloo, ON · mamun@mamunakand.ca · +1-403-499-9267