Abstract Meet-in-the-middle (MITM) is a general paradigm where internal states are
computed along two independent paths ('forwards' and 'backwards') that are then matched …

Abstract The Meet-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack has been widely applied to preimage attacks
on Merkle-Damgård (MD) hashing. In this paper, we introduce a generic framework of the …

Abstract The Demirci-Selçuk meet-in-the-middle (DS-MITM) attack is a sophisticated variant
of differential attacks. Due to its sophistication, it is hard to efficiently find the best DS-MITM …

Fault analysis is a powerful technique to retrieve secret keys by exploiting side-channel
information. Differential fault analysis (DFA) is one of the most powerful threats utilizing …

Ascon is the final winner of the lightweight cryptography standardization competition (2018−
2023). In this paper, we focus on preimage attacks against round-reduced Ascon. The …

The meet-in-the-middle (MITM) technique has led to many key-recovery attacks on block
ciphers and preimage attacks on hash functions. Nowadays, cryptographers use automatic …

At ASIACRYPT 2012, Sasaki et al. introduced the guess-and-determine approach to extend
the meet-in-the-middle (MITM) preimage attack. At CRYPTO 2021, Dong et al. proposed a …

Collision attacks on AES-like hashing (hash functions constructed by plugging AES-like
ciphers or permutations into the famous PGV modes or their variants) can be reduced to the …

Feistel network and its generalizations (GFN) are another important building blocks for
constructing hash functions, eg, Simpira v2, Areion, and the ISO standard Lesamnta-LW …

Besides the US NIST standard SHA-3 (Keccak), another sponge-based primitive Ascon was
selected as the NIST standard for lightweight applications, recently. Exploring the security …