Cryptanalysis Taskforce

List of co-authored works

          Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks against hash functions, occasionally for key recovery attacks on block ciphers and collisions.

1. Shiyao Chen, Jian Guo, Eik List, Danping Shi, Tianyu Zhang: Scrutinizing the Security of AES-Based Hashing and One-Way Functions. ASIACRYPT (1) 2025: 157-188

2. Shiyao Chen, Jian Guo, Eik List, Danping Shi, Tianyu Zhang: Diving Deep into the Preimage Security of AES-Like Hashing. EUROCRYPT (1) 2024: 398-426

3. Xiaoyang Dong, Jian Guo, Shun Li, Phuong Pham, Tianyu Zhang: Improved Meet-in-the-Middle Nostradamus Attacks on AES-like Hashing. IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. 2024(1): 158-187 (2024)

4. Zhenzhen Bao, Jian Guo, Danping Shi, Yi Tu: Superposition Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks: Updates on Fundamental Security of AES-like Hashing. CRYPTO (1) 2022: 64-93

5. Zhenzhen Bao, Xiaoyang Dong, Jian Guo, Zheng Li, Danping Shi, Siwei Sun, Xiaoyun Wang: Automatic Search of Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks on AES-like Hashing.  EUROCRYPT (1) 2021: 771-804

6. Zhenzhen Bao, Lin Ding, Jian Guo, Haoyang Wang, Wenying Zhang: Improved Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks against AES Hashing Modes. IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. 2019(4): 318-347 (2019)

7. Shuang Wu, Dengguo Feng, Wenling Wu, Jian Guo, Le Dong, Jian Zou: (Pseudo) Preimage Attack on Round-Reduced Grøstl Hash Function and Others. FSE 2012: 127-145

8. Lei Wei, Christian Rechberger, Jian Guo, Hongjun Wu, Huaxiong Wang, San Ling: Improved Meet-in-the-Middle Cryptanalysis of KTANTAN (Poster). ACISP 2011: 433-438

9. Jian Guo, San Ling, Christian Rechberger, Huaxiong Wang: Advanced Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks: First Results on Full Tiger, and Improved Results on MD4 and SHA-2. ASIACRYPT 2010: 56-75

10. Kazumaro Aoki, Jian Guo, Krystian Matusiewicz, Yu Sasaki, Lei Wang: Preimages for Step-Reduced SHA-2. ASIACRYPT 2009: 578-597

11. Demirci-Selçuk Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks, mainly for key recovery attacks against block ciphers

12. Jian Guo, Jérémy Jean, Ivica Nikolic, Yu Sasaki: Extended meet-in-the-middle attacks on some Feistel constructions. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 80(3): 587-618 (2016)

13. Jian Guo, Jérémy Jean, Ivica Nikolic, Yu Sasaki: Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Classes of Contracting and Expanding Feistel Constructions. IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. 2016(2): 307-337 (2016)

14. Jian Guo, Jérémy Jean, Ivica Nikolic, Yu Sasaki: Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Generic Feistel Constructions. ASIACRYPT (1) 2014: 458-477