Publications related to NIST hash function competition

Side-channel analysis of isogeny-based key encapsulation mechanisms and hash-based digital signatures

Current cryptographic solutions will become obsolete with the arrival of large-scale universal quantum computers. As a result, the National Institute of Standards and Technology supervises a post-quantum standardization process which involves evaluating ca ...

EPFL2024

Power Yoga: Variable-Stretch Security of CCM for Energy-Efficient Lightweight IoT

Damian Vizár, Reza Reyhanitabar, Emiljano Gjiriti

The currently ongoing NIST LWC project aims at identifying new standardization targets for lightweight authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) and (optionally) lightweight cryptographic hashing. NIST has deemed it important for performance and ...

2021

Orthros: A Low-Latency PRF

Subhadeep Banik

We present Orthros, a 128-bit block pseudorandom function. It is designed with primary focus on latency of fully unrolled circuits. For this purpose, we adopt a parallel structure comprising two keyed permutations. The round function of each permutation is ...

2021

Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) – The 2020 Edition

Sébastien Marcel, Amir Mohammadi, Priyanka Das

Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the fourth competition of the series ...

IEEE2020

Synthesis of Flexible Accelerators for Early Adoption of Ring-LWE Post-quantum Cryptography

Francesco Regazzoni, Subhadeep Banik, Hamid Nejatollahi

The advent of the quantum computer makes current public-key infrastructure insecure. Cryptography community is addressing this problem by designing, efficiently implementing, and evaluating novel public-key algorithms capable of withstanding quantum comput ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

The Area-Latency Symbiosis: Towards Improved Serial Encryption Circuits

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Andrea Felice Caforio

The bit-sliding paper of Jean et al. (CHES 2017) showed that the smallest-size circuit for SPN based block ciphers such as AES, SKINNY and PRESENT can be achieved via bit-serial implementations. Their technique decreases the bit size of the datapath and na ...

2020

Beyond Conventional Security in Sponge-Based Authenticated Encryption Modes

Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic

The Sponge function is known to achieve 2c/2 security, where c is its capacity. This bound was carried over to its keyed variants, such as SpongeWrap, to achieve a min{2c/2,2 kappa} security bound, with kappa the key length. Similarly, many CAESAR competit ...

SPRINGER2019

Provably Secure Authenticated Encryption

Damian Vizár

Authenticated Encryption (AE) is a symmetric key cryptographic primitive that ensures confidentiality and authenticity of processed messages at the same time. The research of AE as a primitive in its own right started in 2000. The security goals of AE wer ...

EPFL2018

Security of Full-State Keyed Sponge and Duplex: Applications to Authenticated Encryption

Damian Vizár, Reza Reyhanitabar

We provide a security analysis for full-state keyed Sponge and full-state Duplex constructions. Our results can be used for making a large class of Sponge-based authenticated encryption schemes more efficient by concurrent absorption of associated data and ...

Springer2015

Boosting OMD for Almost Free Authentication of Associated Data

Serge Vaudenay, Damian Vizár, Reza Reyhanitabar

We propose pure OMD (p-OMD) as a new variant of the Offset Merkle-Damgård (OMD) authenticated encryption scheme. Our new scheme inherits all desirable security features of OMD while having a more compact structure and providing higher efficiency. The origi ...

Springer2015

Faster Software Cryptography

Dag Arne Osvik

This thesis presents work on the efficiency and security of cryptographic software. First it describes several efforts to construct very efficient implementations of cryptographic primitives. These include the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as well as ...

EPFL2012

Synthetic Linear Analysis: Improved Attacks on CubeHash and Rabbit

Serge Vaudenay, Yi Lu, Willi Meier

It has been considered most important and difficult to analyze the bias and find a large bias regarding the security of crypto-systems, since the invention of linear cryptanalysis. The demonstration of a large bias will usually imply that the target crypto ...

Springer2012

Performance Analysis of the SHA-3 Candidates on Exotic Multi-core Architectures

Joppe Willem Bos, Deian Stefan

The NIST hash function competition to design a new cryptographic hash standard 'SHA-3' is currently one of the hot topics in cryptologic research, its outcome heavily depends on the public evaluation of the remaining 14 candidates. There have been several ...

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Cryptanalysis of reduced-round MIBS Block cipher

Serge Vaudenay, Jorge Nakahara, Asli Bay

This paper presents the first independent and systematic lin- ear, differential and impossible-differential (ID) cryptanalyses of MIBS, a lightweight block cipher aimed at constrained devices such as RFID tags and sensor networks. Our contributions include ...

Springer2010

ARMADILLO: A Multi-purpose Cryptographic Primitive Dedicated to Hardware

Serge Vaudenay, Stéphane Badel, Pouyan Sepehrdad, Nilay Dagtekin, Khaled Ouafi, Jorge Nakahara, Petr Susil

This paper describes and analyzes the security of a general-purpose cryptographic function design, with application in RFID tags and sensor networks. Based on these analyzes, we suggest minimum parameter values for the main components of this cryptographic ...

Springer2010

Improved Cryptanalysis of Skein

Willi Meier, Onur Özen, Jean-Philippe Aumasson

The hash function Skein is the submission of Ferguson et al. to the NIST Hash Competition, and is arguably a serious candidate for selection as SHA-3. This paper presents the first third-party analysis of Skein, with an extensive study of its main componen ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2009

Analysis and design of symmetric cryptographic algorithms

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

This thesis is concerned with the analysis and design of symmetric cryptographic algorithms, with a focus on real-world algorithms. The first part describes original cryptanalysis results, including: The first nontrivial preimage attacks on the (reduced) h ...

EPFL2009

A Family of Fast Syndrome Based Cryptographic Hash Functions

Recently, some collisions have been exposed for a variety of cryptographic hash functions including some of the most widely used today. Many other hash functions using similar constructions can however still be considered secure. Nevertheless, this has dra ...

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