Tom Delves

The Morality of Football-Betting in its Intersections with Capitalism and Social Reproduction

Sociology

Gambling involves a mixture of luck, knowledge, skill and nerve. Through interview discussions with my informant Stew I seek to analyse the...

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Simon Gerhalter, Samir Hodžić, Marcel Medwed, Marcel Nageler, Artur Folwarczny, Ventzi Nikov, Jan Hoogerbrugge, Tobias Schneider, Gary McConville, Maria Eichlseder

BEANIE – A 32-bit Cipher for Cryptographic Mitigations Against Software Attacks

Cryptography

In modern CPU architectures, various security features to mitigate software attacks can be found. Examples of such features are logical iso...

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Subhadeep Banik, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Ryoma Ito, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Kazuma Nakata, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto

Dialga: A Family of Low-Latency Tweakable Block Ciphers Using Multiple Linear Layers

Informatics

In this paper, we propose Dialga, a family of low-latency tweakable block ciphers designed to support 128/256-bit tweaks and 256-bit keys....

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This paper introduces Dialga, a new family of low-latency tweakable block ciphers engineered to support 128/256-bit tweaks and 256-bit keys. The prima...

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Akiko Inoue, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma

How to Implement Authenticated Encryption on XTS-Enabled Devices

Cryptography

XTS is a block cipher mode for storage encryption. IEEE and NIST have standardized it, and it is widely deployed in real-world applications...

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This paper addresses a critical security vulnerability inherent in XTS, a widely adopted block cipher mode for storage encryption standardized by IEEE...

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Mario Marhuenda Beltrán, Mustafa Khairallah

On the Plaintext Awareness of AEAD Schemes

Informatics

Plaintext-awareness of AEAD schemes is one of the more obscure and easily misunderstood notions. Originally proposed by Andreeva et al., Me...

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Haoran Li, Shichang Wang, Meicheng Liu, Willi Meier, Dongdai Lin

Cube Attacks with Elimination Strategy: Key Recovery Attacks on Trivium

Cryptography

In this paper, we present a novel framework for cube attacks named cube attacks with elimination strategy. The core idea is to find specifi...

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This paper introduces an innovative cryptanalytic framework termed "cube attacks with elimination strategy," specifically targeting the Trivium stream...

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Benoît Cogliati, Simon Demarty

Multi-User Security Bound for Mixed Filter Permutators in the Random Oracle Model

Informatics

At Eurocrypt’16, Méaux et al. designed a construction for symmetric ciphers that can be efficiently evaluated with Fully Homomorphic Encryp...

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Christoph Dobraunig, Yosuke Todo

Preface to Volume 2026, Issue 1

Research

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The submission, titled "Preface to Volume 2026, Issue 1," clearly positions itself as an introductory piece for an upcoming journal issue. Prefaces ar...

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Hongli Li, Changlun Li, Honggang Hu, Fengmei Liu

Indifferentiability of the Sponge Hash Family: New Attacks and the Optimal Construction

Informatics

The sponge construction is subject to an indifferentiability security bound of c/2 bits, where c denotes the capacity. For a given b-bit pe...

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Antoine Bak, Shibam Ghosh, Fukang Liu, Willi Meier, Jianqiang Ni, Léo Perrin

Cryptanalysis of TFHE-Friendly Cipher FRAST

Cryptography

FRAST is a TFHE-friendly stream cipher that was published at FSE 2025. The cipher is defined over Z16, and makes extensive use of negacycli...

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