

The same three authors plagiarized this paper by French cryptographer Serge Vaudenay and others. He’s still responsible for anything he puts his name on.Īnd we’re not the only ones. (This is not unusual it happens all the time in universities all over the world.) But that doesn’t get him off the hook. If you believe his story-which is probably correct-he had nothing to do with the research, but just appended his name to a paper by two of his students. Tauseef-Ur-Rehman, is a department head (and faculty member) in the Telecommunications Engineering Department at this Pakistani institution. The three authors are from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Perhaps they were worried that one of the referees would read the papers listed in their bibliography, and notice the plagiarism. They do have a lurking reference to “” (the first of our two papers) in the body of their introduction and design principles, presumably copied from our text but a full citation for “” isn’t in their bibliography. They don’t list either of our papers in their bibliography. We wrote two papers on the topic this is the second. It has the same quirks in the way references are cited. It’s copied, with the same section, paragraph, and sentence structure-right down to the same mathematical variable names. Sentences have been reworded or summarized a bit and many typos have been introduced, but otherwise it’s the same paper. Tauseef-ur-Rehman, is the same as a paper that John Kelsey, David Wagner, and I published in 1997. Plagiarism and Academia: Personal ExperienceĪ paper published in the December 2004 issue of the SIGCSE Bulletin, “Cryptanalysis of some encryption/cipher schemes using related key attack,” by Khawaja Amer Hayat, Umar Waqar Anis, and S.
