July 2026 – KeyCryptic

CFAIL 2026 Paper: Unintended Features of APIs: The OpenSSL Bug That Quietly Disappeared

by nickyPapers July 16, 2026July 16, 2026Comments are Disabled

The paper “Unintended Features of APIs: The OpenSSL Bug That Quietly Disappeared” was accepted at CFAIL 2026. This is the eighth edition of the Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology, an affiliated event of Crypto 2026. This paper follows up on Benmocha et al.’s “Unintended Features of APIs: Cryptanalysis of Incremental HMAC” …

SAC 2026 Paper: Extended Analysis of Key Committing Security of HCTR2

by nickyPapers July 9, 2026July 29, 2026Comments are Disabled

The paper “Extended Analysis of Key Committing Security of HCTR2” has been accepted at the Selected Areas in Cryptography 2026 conference. This is second-longest running North-American cryptography conference, held in Canada every year since 1994. This paper presents an analysis of the key committing security of EtE-HCTR2, a robust authenticated encryption scheme constructed from HCTR2 …