Aurel Pichollet-Mugnier, André Schrottenloher

Quantum Truncated Differential Attacks Using Convolutions

Cyber

This paper focuses on quantum key-recovery attacks on block ciphers. Previous works on quantum differential and truncated differential atta...

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Xiaoen Lin, Zhengrong Lu, Yantian Shen, Chongxu Ren, Hongbo Yu, Enming Dong, Wenhao Wu

Practical Preimage Attack on 5-Round Keccak[r=640, c=160]

Cyber

Internal differential cryptanalysis has recently yielded a series of new results in the preimage cryptanalysis of round-reduced Keccak. Whi...

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This paper presents a significant advancement in the cryptanalysis of round-reduced Keccak, specifically focusing on preimage attacks. Building upon t...

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Eran Lambooij, Patrick Neumann

A Known-Plaintext Attack with Minimal Data Complexity on 25-Round CRAFT

Cryptography

We present the first known-plaintext attack on up to 25 rounds of the tweakable block cipher Craft. These attacks require only two known pl...

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This paper presents a significant contribution to the cryptanalysis of the CRAFT tweakable block cipher, introducing the first known-plaintext attack...

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Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang

Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32

Cyber

The protection of executable code in embedded systems requires efficient mechanisms that ensure confidentiality and integrity. Belkheyar et...

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Cheng Che, Tian Tian

Differential-Linear Cryptanalysis and Cube Attacks on ChiLow

Cryptography

ChiLow is a family of tweakable block ciphers specifically designed for embedded code encryption, proposed at EUROCRYPT 2025. Its novel nes...

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This paper presents a timely and critical security analysis of ChiLow, a recently proposed family of tweakable block ciphers targeting embedded code e...

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Chengan Hou, Shuyi Wang, Meicheng Liu

Walsh Spectrum Puncturing Revisited: Toward Automated Linear Key Recovery Attacks

Informatics

Linear cryptanalysis has long served as a cornerstone in the security analysis of symmetric-key cryptanalytic primitives. Through more than...

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This paper addresses a crucial and often overlooked challenge in symmetric-key cryptanalysis: the automation and optimization of the key recovery phas...

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Jianhua Wang, Tao Huang, Siwei Sun, Hailun Yan, Guang Zeng, Shuang Wu

Differential Pattern Transition

Cryptography

This paper introduces a new cryptographic notion for diffusion matrices, termed the Differential Pattern Transition (DPT). Building on this...

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This paper introduces the Differential Pattern Transition (DPT), a novel cryptographic notion specifically designed for the rigorous analysis of diffu...

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Yufei Yuan, Wenling Wu, Lei Zhang, Ruichen Wu

Fourier Analysis of Neural Distinguishers

Cyber

Recent studies have consistently demonstrated the significant potential of deep learning for distinguishing attacks in cryptanalysis. A con...

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This paper addresses a crucial and timely challenge in the application of deep learning to cryptanalysis: the lack of theoretical understanding and in...

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Yongchao Li, Yongzhuang Wei, Lang Li, Jian Guo

HILL: Efficient Low-Latency Implementations of Linear Layers via Heuristic Search

Engineering

Lightweight cryptography aims to achieve security with minimal resource footprints and low computational overhead. In particular, efficient...

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Sapto Raharjo, Lina Lestari Lestari, Muhamad Alim Marhadi , Yacobus Yulianto Dalanga, Sarman, Muhammad Arohman , Apriansa

Community Service Through Science Practicum Guidance for SD IT Insantama Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi at the Integrated Laboratory Unit, Halu Oleo University

Guidance

A magnet practicum mentoring activity for fifth-grade students of SD IT Insantama Kendari was conducted on 29 October 2025 at the Integrated Laborator...

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