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Education

Ph.D.,  July 2007, Middlesex University, UK

PGCertHE.,  January 2007, Middlesex University, UK

M.Sc., Computer Science,  July 2002, Fudan University, China

B.Sc., Computer Science, July 1998, Fudan University, China

Experience:

Senior Software Engineer, RedSonic Inc. July 2002-Nov 2002

Research Assistant, Communication Lab of Communication and Engineering Department of Fudan University, January 2002-June 2002

Research Assistant, Great Wall Broadband Network Technical Center , January 2001-May 2002

Research Assistant, Fudan Network Center, Fudan University, October 1999-December 2000

Director Assistant, German ICS Co.,Ltd Shanghai Office, July 1998-April 1999

Some Projects:

Publications

Journal Papers

1. Liqun Chen, Zhaohui Cheng and Nigel Smart. "Identity-based Key Agreement Protocols From Pairings", Int. J. of Information Security, Vol 6, No. 4, pp. 213-241, 2007.
2. Zhaohui Cheng and Liqun Chen. "On Security Proof of McCullagh-Barreto's Key Agreement Protocol and its Variants", Int. J. of Security and Networks(IJSN) Special Issue on Cryptography in Network, Vol 2, No. 3/4, pp 251-259, 2007.
3. Liqun Chen, Zhaohui Cheng, John Malone-Lee and Nigel P. Smart. "An Efficient ID-KEM Based On The Sakai--Kasahara Key Construction", IEE Proc. Information Security volume 153(1): pp. 19-26, March 2006. Aslo available on Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/224.
4. Zhaohui Cheng and Richard Comley. "Attacks On An ISO/IEC 11770-2 Key Establishment Protocol", International Journal of Network Security (IJNS), Vol.3, No.3, pp. 238-243, Nov. 2006. Also available on Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2004/249. (ISO published a technical corrigendum to remove the protocol from ISO/IEC 11770-2 (1996).)
5. Lian Zeng, Zhaohui Cheng and Li Ling. "ENAT-PT: An Enhanced NAT-PT Model", Journal of Software, Vol.14 No.12, December 2003.
6. Wengang Gu, Zhaohui Cheng and Jinhua Jing. "One PKI Based Kerberos Cross-Realm Authentication Protocol", Journal of Computer Science Vol.28 No.10, 2001 (Chinese).
7. Zhaohui Cheng, Wengang Gu and Li Ling. "One IKE Protocol Based on Digital Signature and Its Analysis", Journal of Computer Science Vol.28 No.3, 2001 (Chinese).

Refereed Conference and Workshop Proceedings

1. Zhaohui Cheng, Liqun Chen, Li Ling and Richard Comley. "General and Efficient Certificateless Public Key Encryption Constructions", Pairing 2007, LNCS 4575, pp. 83-107. An ealy draft also available on Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/012.
2. Zhaohui Cheng, Liqun Chen, Richard Comley and Qiang Tang. "Identity-Based Key Agreement with Unilateral Identity Privacy Using Pairings", ISPEC 2006, LNCS 3903, pp. 202-213. Also available on Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/339.
3. Liqun Chen and Zhaohui Cheng. "Security Proof of Sakai-Kasahara's Identity-Based Encryption Scheme", 10th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, LNCS Vol.3796, pp. 442-459. Full version is on Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/226.
4. Zhaohui Cheng and Manos Nistazakis. "Implementing Pairing-Based Cryptosystems", Proceedings of IWWST-2005, London, UK, April 2005.
5. Zhaohui Cheng, Richard Comley and Luminita Vasiu. "Remove Key Escrow from The Identity-Based Encryption System", Foundations of Information Technology in the Era of Network and Mobile Computing, pp. 37-50. TCS@IFIP 2004, Toulouse, France, August 2004. Full version.
6. Zhaohui Cheng, Manos Nistazakis, Richard Comley and Luminita Vasiu. "On Indistinguishability-Based Security Model of Key Agreement Protocols-Simple Cases",  the Technical Track in ACNS 2004, Yellow Mountain, China, June 2004. Journal of China Information Security(special edition). Full version.
7. Zhaohui Cheng, Manos Nistazakis and Richard Comley. "Security Analysis of LWAPP", Proceedings of IWWST-2004,  London, UK, April 2004.
8. Zhaohui Cheng, Kenneth Chin and Yuan Luo. "Computing Migration Through Context Awareness and Context Transmission", Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, pp. 386-394, ICWI 2003, Algarve, Portugal.
9. Zhaohui Cheng, Li Ling and Manos Nistazakis. "One Access Security Model under MWIF Network Reference Architecture", Proceedings of IWWST-2003, London, UK,  April 2003.
10. Lian Zeng, Zhaohui Cheng, Li Ling and Songrong Qian. "ENAT-PT: An Enhanced NAT-PT Model", International Conference on Electronic Business, Taiwan, December 2002.

Reports and Notes 

1. Shengbao Wang, Zhenfu Cao, Zhaohui Cheng and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. "Perfect Forward Secure Identity-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol in the Escrow Mode", Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2007/313, August 2007
2. Zhaohui Cheng. "Simple SK-ID-KEM", June 2005
3. Zhaohui Cheng, Luminita Vasiu and Richard Comley. "Pairing-Based One-Round Tripartite Key Agreement Protocols", Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2004/079, Last update in October 2004

Internet Drafts 

1. Zhaohui Cheng and Bo Dan "Use of the Identity-Based Cryptographic Algorithms in CMS", 2007

Thesis

Pairing-Based Cryptosystems and Key Agreement Protocols.

Jury: Bruce Christianson (University of Hertfordshire) and Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway, University of London)