Meeting Minutes

#Meeting Minutes

##Initial Meeting

• Discussed the several options for the project
• RSA vs Neural network
• Set next meeting for 2/11/2016 for confirm project and abstract
• Time: 2 hours

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##Meeting on 2/11/2016

• Met to finalize the project idea and write the abstract
• Wanted to work with RSA encryption, decided on this over neural network
• Finalized abstracted
• Next meeting was not set
• Time: 2 Hours

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##Meeting on 2/19/2016

• Met to revisit the project abstract and create a gantt chart
• This took longer than expected, but served its purpose as it was useful for understanding the task ahead of us, and that it need to be changed
• Time: 4 hours
• Next meeting has not been chosen yet

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##Meeting 03/08/2016

• Discussed the recent progress with the Montgomery Multiplier.
  • Stephen has finished working on the Montgomery Multiplier which needs to be tested and verified.
• We are a little behind the scheduled work breakdown, but will be catching up this week.
  • Luis will work on the exponentiation module.
  • Jacob will work on presentation (we will all work on this at some point) and more testing.
• Testing documentation will be available on the Wiki soon.
• Discussed the use of branches for individual modules which can be combined later

##Meeting 03/14/2016

• Look at where Luis lives (far af)
• Discussed synthesize Modular/exponentiation units
• Clarify tests and verify Montgomery Modular Multiplication unit.
• Discussed Feedback from presentation, everyone will share more tasks

##Meeting 03/27/2016

• Discussed Python test script and generation of test data
• Discussed correctness of Modular Exponentiation Module
  • Issue with hardware realization of algorithm -- fixed
• Started comparison module

##Meeting 04/09/2016

• Fixed issue with modular multiplier, was off on data width
• Need to run timing analysis in Quartus II -- Expontent (3 inputs then 1 input)
• Pre_compute K
• Modify mod_exp for only on input and fixed encryption/decryption keys

##Meeting 04/11/2016

• Working on comparison module -- need to finish
• Discussed presentation feedback
• Paper started

###Tasks to be completed:

• Synthesize comparison module
• Check the correctness for more bits of exp
• Synthesize exp for Stratix IV (larger width?)
• Finish Paper