The paper “Back to the Past: Backward Resampling Method with Applications to CHCTR2 and CLRW2” has been accepted at the Asiacrypt 2026 conference. Asiacrypt is the IACR’s annual flagship conference for the Asia-Pacific region, Asiacrypt 2026 will be held in Hong Kong. In light of NIST’s ongoing accordion standardization efforts, this paper propose the backward …
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” …
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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 …
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The paper “Key Committing Security of HCTR2, Revisited” has been accepted at the Crypto 2026 conference. This is the longest-running cryptography conference, and has been held every year since 1981 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. This paper presents improved attacks and proofs for the key committing security of EtE-HCTR2, a robust authenticated encryption scheme constructed …
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