Established in 2014, we are a group of cryptography researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Supported by university and government research fundings, we focus on research of symmetric-key cryptography and lightweight cryptography. We are physically hosted by the Division of Mathematical Sciences and part of the Coding and Cryptography Research Group.


Hiring: As advertised here, we have 2 PhD vacancies with research scholarship, if you are interested in symmetric-key cryptography research in NTU Singapore, send your CV and reference letters to Jian Guo.

News:
2018-03-05: Joint with L. Song, J. Guo, and D. Shi, the paper entitled "New MILP Modeling: Improved Conditional Cube Attacks to Keccak-based Constructions" won the Kejte cryptanalysis prize.
2018-02-08: Joint with C. Chaigneau, T. Fuhr, H. Gilbert, J. Guo, J. Jean, J. R. Reinhard, L. Song, the paper entitled "Key-Recovery Attacks on Full Kravatte" won the Best Paper Award of FSE 2018. The paper broke the full Kravatte (a PRF design based on the SHA-3 round function), and several subsequent patched versions.
2017-02-26: We solved the 6-round collision challenge of Keccak[r=1440,c=160,nr=6], refer to this announcement and acknowledgement by the Keccak Team.
2016-12-12: Meicheng solved the 4-round preimage challenge of Keccak[r=1440, c=160, nr=4], refer to this announcement and acknowledgement by the Keccak Team.
2016-08-15: CLOC+SILC is selected into the 3rd round of CAESAR competition.
2016-08-01: PHOTON is now part of ISO lightweight hash function standards ISO/IEC 29192-5:2016.
2016-07-11: We solved the 5-round collision challenge of Keccak[r=640,c=160, nr=5], refer to this announcement and acknowledgement by the Keccak Team.
2016-05-27: We solved the 5-round collision challenge of Keccak[r=1440,c=160, nr=5], refer to this announcement and acknowledgement by the Keccak Team.
2016-04-25: We solved the 3-round preimage challenge of Keccak[r=1440, c=160, nr=3] and Keccak[r=640, c=160, nr=3], refer to this announcement and acknowledgement by the Keccak Team.

Members

Team Leader:

Email: guojian@ntu.edu.sg

Phone: +65 6514 8399

Interests: Symmetric-Key Cryptography, Lightweight Cryptography


Members:

Zhenzhen Bao

Email: zzbao@ntu.edu.sg

Phone: +65 6513 7440

Interests: Symmetric-Key Cryptography


Ling Song

Email: songling@ntu.edu.sg

Phone: +65 6513 7440

Interests: Symmetric-Key Cryptography

 

Visitors:


Students:

Guozhen Liu
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 03/08/2017 -
Haoyang Wang
(with Thomas Peyrin)
 School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore		 07/2016 -

Past Members:

Meicheng Liu
 12/05/2015 - 30/09/2016 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Subhadeep Banik
 01/03/2016 - 29/06/2017 EPFL, Switzerland

Past Visitors:

Tetsu Iwata Nagoya University, Japan12/02/2018 - 22/02/2018
Tetsu Iwata Nagoya University, Japan17/10/2016 - 31/03/2017
Jingmei Liu  Xidian University, China 01/03/2016 - 01/03/2017
Lei Wang  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 04/02/2017 - 10/02/2017
Vesselin Velichkov  Luxembourg University, Luxembourg 12/12/2016 - 16/12/2016
Qingju Wang  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 08/08/2016 - 15/10/2016
Yu Yu  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 11/07/2016 - 10/09/2016
Florian Mendel  Graz University of Technology, Austria 28/09/2015 - 30/10/2015
Lei Zhang  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 26/09/2015 - 10/10/2015
Lei Wang  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 20/09/2015 - 04/10/2015
Liting Zhang  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 28/08/2015 - 27/10/2015
Bing Sun  National University of Defense Technology, China 13/07/2015 - 12/10/2015
Bin Zhang  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 17/11/2014 - 21/11/2014

Past Exchange Students:

Tingting Cui
 Shandong University, China
10/02/2017 - 25/08/2017
Jiale Guo
 Shandong University, China
10/11/2016 - 02/03/2017
Ning Luo
 Shandong University, China
10/11/2016 - 14/02/2017
Guozhen Liu
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
15/07/2016 - 31/02/2017
Guohong Liao
 South China Normal University, China
15/07/2016 - 12/10/2016
Kexin Qiao
 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
01/12/2015 - 31/05/2016
Haoyang Wang
 Shandong University, China
01/08/2015 - 31/08/2015
Jingyuan Zhao
 Shandong University, China
17/02/2015 - 16/05/2015


Publications

2018

  1. C. Cid, T. Huang, T. Peyrin, Y. Sasaki, L. Song: Boomerang Connectivity Table: a New Cryptanalysis Tool, EUROCRYPT 2018
  2. Z. Bao, J. Guo, L. Wang: SoK: Functional Graph and Its Applications in Generic Attacks on Iterated Hash Constructions, FSE 2018 / ToSC 2018 Issue 1
  3. C. Chaigneau, T. Fuhr, H. Gilbert, J. Guo, J. Jean, J. R. Reinhard, L. Song: Key-Recovery Attacks on Full Kravatte, FSE 2018 / ToSC 2018 Issue 1
    ~ the Best Paper Award, invited to JoC ~
  4. S. Banik, T. Isobe, T. Cui, J. Guo: Some Cryptanalysis Results on Lizard, FSE 2018 / ToSC 2017 Issue 4
  5. G. Liu, M. Ghosh, L. Song: Security Analysis of SKINNY under Related-Tweakey Settings, FSE 2018 / ToSC 2017 Issue 3
  6. C. Cid, T. Huang, T. Peyrin, Y. Sasaki, L. Song: Cryptanalysis of Deoxys and its Internal Tweakable Block Ciphers, FSE 2018 / ToSC 2017 Issue 3

2017

    1. Z. Bao, L. Wang, J. Guo, D. Gu: Functional Graph Revisited: Updates on (Second) Preimage Attacks on Hash Combiners, CRYPTO 2017.
    2. L. Song, G. Liao, J. Guo: Non-Full Sbox Linearization: Applications to Collision Attacks on Round-Reduced Keccak, CRYPTO 2017. [Keccak GPU implementations]
    3. K. Qiao, L. Song, M. Liu, J. Guo: New Collision Attacks on Round-Reduced Keccak, EUROCRYPT 2017.
    4. J. Guo, J. Jean, I. Nikolić, Y. Sasaki: Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Classes of Contracting and Expanding Feistel Constructions, FSE 2017 / ToSC 2016 Issue 2.
    5. J. Guo, J. Jean, I. Nikolić, K. Qiao, Y. Sasaki, S. M. Sim: Invariant Subspace Attack Against Midori64 and The Resistance Criteria for S-box Designs, FSE 2017 / ToSC 2016 Issue 1.
    6. S. Banik, A. Bogdanov, T. Isobe, M. B. Jepsen: Analysis of Software Countermeasures for Whitebox Encryption, FSE 2017 / ToSC 2017 Issue 1.
    7. S. Banik, A. Bogdanov, F. Regazzoni: Efficient Configurations for Block Ciphers with Unified ENC/DEC Paths. IEEE HOST 2017
    8. G. Zhang, M. Liu, A distinguisher on PRESENT-like permutations with application to SPONGENT. Journal of Science China Information Sciences, 2017
    9. S. Banik, T. Isobe and M. Morii: Analysis and Improvements of the Full Spritz Stream Cipher. IEICE Transactions A, 2017.
    10. R. Ankele, S. Banik, A. Chakrabarti, E. List, F. Mendel, S. Sim, G. Wang: Related Key Impossible Differential Attack on Reduced Round SKINNY. ACNS 2017.
    11. S. Banik, S. Pandey, T. Peyrin, Y. Sasaki, S. Sim, Y. Todo: GIFT: A Small Present. CHES 2017.

    2016

    1. L. Wang, J. Guo, G. Zhang, J. Zhao, D. Gu: How to Build Fully Secure Tweakable Blockciphers from Classical Blockciphers, ASIACRYPT 2016.
    2. J. Guo, M. Liu, L. Song: Linear Structures: Applications to Cryptanalysis of Round-Reduced Keccak, ASIACRYPT 2016.
    3. B. Sun, M. Liu, J. Guo, L. Qu, V. Rijmen: New Insights on AES-Like SPN Ciphers, CRYPTO 2016.
    4. B. Sun, M. Liu, J. Guo, V. Rijmen, R. Li: Provable Security Evaluation of Structures against Impossible Differential and Zero Correlation Linear Cryptanalysis, EUROCRYPT 2016.
    5. M. Liu, S. Sim: Lightweight MDS Generalized Circulant Matrices, FSE 2016.
    6. S. Banik, T. Isobe: Cryptanalysis of the Full Spritz Stream Cipher, FSE 2016.
    7. S. Banik, A. Bogdanov, T. Fanni, C. Sau, L. Raffo, F. Palumbo, F. Regazzoni: Adaptable AES Implementation with Power gating Support, ACM Computing Frontiers 2016.
    8. L. Song, Z. Huang, Q. Yang: Automatic Differential Analysis of ARX Block Ciphers with Application to SPECK and LEA, ACISP 2016.
    9. D. Sijacic, A. Kidmose, B. Yang, S. Banik, B. Bilgin, A. Bogdanov, I. Verbauwhede: Hold your breath, PRIMATEs are lightweight. SAC 2016.
    10. S. Jha, S. Banik, T. Isobe, T. Ohigashi. Some results on the use of RC4 in TLS. Indocrypt 2016.
    11. S. Banik, A. Bogdanov, F. Regazzoni. Atomic-AES: A Compact Implementation of the AES Encryption/Decryption Core. Indocrypt 2016.