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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Noé Amiot, Quentin Meunier, Karine Heydemann, Emmanuelle Encrenaz

aLEAKator: HDL Mixed-Domain Simulation for Masked Hardware & Software Formal Verification

Cryptography

Verifying the security of masked hardware and software implementations, under advanced leakage models, remains a significant challenge, esp...

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The paper introduces "aLEAKator," a novel open-source framework tackling the critical and complex challenge of formally verifying the security of mask...

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Lili Tang, Rui Ding, Yao Sun, Xiaorui Gong

Memory Optimizations of Wagner’s Algorithm with Applications to Equihash

Cryptography

The Generalized Birthday Problem (GBP) serves as a cornerstone for a broad spectrum of cryptanalytic research. The classical solution, Wagn...

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Hiroshi Amagasa, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma

AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors

Cryptography

QR-UOV is a multivariate signature scheme selected as one of the candidates in the second round of the NIST PQC Additional Digital Signatur...

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The paper "AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors" presents a timely and highly relevant contribution to the field of post-quantum cr...

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