Kai Hu

According to our database, Kai Hu authored at least 44 papers between 2018 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2025

Meet-in-the-middle attack on round-reduced SCARF under single pair-of-tweaks setting.

Siwei Chen, Kai Hu, Guozhen Liu, Zhongfeng Niu, Quan Quan Tan, Shichang Wang

Des. Codes Cryptogr., May, 2025

Mix-Basis Geometric Approach to Boomerang Distinguishers.

Chengcheng Chang, Hosein Hadipour, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang

IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2025

Addendum to How Small Can S-boxes Be?

Yu Sun, Lixuan Wu, Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Cryptanalysis of ChiLow with Cube-Like Attacks.

Shuo Peng, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Towards Better Integral Distinguishers over 픽_p Based on Exact Coefficients of Monomials.

Muzhou Li, Jiamin Cui, Longzheng Cui, Kai Hu, Chao Niu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

How Small Can S-boxes Be.

Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Qing Ling, Yan He, Kai Hu, Yu Sun, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Periodic Table of Cryptanalysis: Geometric Approach with Different Bases.

Kai Hu, Chi Zhang, Chengcheng Chang, Jiashu Zhang, Meiqin Wang, Thomas Peyrin

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Exploring Core Monomial Prediction Further: Weak-Key Superpoly Recovery for 852-Round Trivium.

Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Guowei Liu

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Adding Feeding Forward Back to the Sponge Construction.

Chun Guo, Kai Hu, Yanhong Fan, Yong Fu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Related-Key Differential and Boomerang Cryptanalysis in the Fixed-Key Model.

Chengcheng Chang, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

Improved Key Recovery Attacks of Ascon.

Shuo Peng, Kai Hu, Jiahui He, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2025, 2025

Quasidifferential Saves Infeasible Differential - Improved Weak-Key Key-Recovery Attacks on Round-Reduced GIFT.

Chengcheng Chang, Meiqin Wang, Wei Wang, Kai Hu

Proceedings of the Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2025, 2025

Unlocking Mix-Basis Potential: Geometric Approach for Combined Attacks.

Kai Hu, Chi Zhang, Chengcheng Chang, Jiashu Zhang, Meiqin Wang, Thomas Peyrin

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2025, 2025

2024

Cryptanalysis of Full-Round BipBip.

Jinliang Wang, Christina Boura, Patrick Derbez, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang

IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2024

Improved Conditional Cube Attacks on Ascon AEADs in Nonce-Respecting Settings with a Break-Fix Strategy.

Kai Hu

IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2024

Integral Attack on the Full FUTURE Block Cipher.

Zeyu Xu, Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

Symmetric Twin Column Parity Mixers and their Applications.

Hao Lei, Raghvendra Rohit, Guoxiao Liu, Jiahui He, Mohamed Rachidi, Keting Jia, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

Perfect Monomial Prediction for Modular Addition.

Kai Hu, Trevor Yap

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

uKNIT: Breaking Round-alignment for Cipher Design - Featuring uKNIT-BC, an Ultra Low-Latency Block Cipher.

Kai Hu, Mustafa Khairallah, Thomas Peyrin, Quan Quan Tan

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on 4+4 Rounds of SCARF under Single-Tweak Setting.

Siwei Chen, Kai Hu, Guozhen Liu, Zhongfeng Niu, Quan Quan Tan, Shichang Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

Massive Superpoly Recovery with a Meet-in-the-Middle Framework - Improved Cube Attacks on Trivium and Kreyvium.

Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Hao Lei, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2024, 2024

Speeding Up Preimage and Key-Recovery Attacks with Highly Biased Differential-Linear Approximations.

Zhongfeng Niu, Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2024, 2024

Revisiting Truncated Differential Attack from the Perspective of Equivalent Propagation Equations - Improved Attacks on TWINE and LBlock.

Shiqi Hou, Muzhou Li, Kai Hu, Shichang Wang, Bart Preneel

Proceedings of the Information Security and Cryptology - 20th International Conference, 2024

2023

More Balanced Polynomials: Cube Attacks on 810- And 825-Round Trivium with Practical Complexities.

Hao Lei, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2023, 2023

Revisiting Higher-Order Differential-Linear Attacks from an Algebraic Perspective.

Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin, Quan Quan Tan, Trevor Yap

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2023, 2023

2022

Revisiting Higher-Order Differential(-Linear) Attacks from an Algebraic Perspective - Applications to Ascon, Grain v1, Xoodoo, and ChaCha.

Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

On the Field-Based Division Property: Applications to MiMC, Feistel MiMC and GMiMC (Full Version).

Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, Puwen Wei

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

Finding All Impossible Differentials When Considering the DDT.

Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Selected Areas in Cryptography - 29th International Conference, 2022

Integral Attacks on Pyjamask-96 and Round-Reduced Pyjamask-128.

Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2022, 2022

Stretching Cube Attacks: Improved Methods to Recover Massive Superpolies.

Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Bart Preneel, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2022, 2022

On the Field-Based Division Property: Applications to MiMC, Feistel MiMC and GMiMC.

Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, Puwen Wei

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2022, 2022

2021

A Secure IoT Firmware Update Scheme Against SCPA and DoS Attacks.

Yan-Hong Fan, Mei-Qin Wang, Yan-Bin Li, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li

J. Comput. Sci. Technol., 2021

Misuse-Free Key-Recovery and Distinguishing Attacks on 7-Round Ascon.

Raghvendra Rohit, Kai Hu, Sumanta Sarkar, Siwei Sun

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021

STP models of optimal differential and linear trail for S-box based ciphers.

Yu Liu, Huicong Liang, Muzhou Li, Luning Huang, Kai Hu, Chenhe Yang, Meiqin Wang

Sci. China Inf. Sci., 2021

Pushing the Limits: Searching for Implementations with the Smallest Area for Lightweight S-Boxes.

Zhenyu Lu, Weijia Wang, Kai Hu, Yanhong Fan, Lixuan Wu, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2021, 2021

Massive Superpoly Recovery with Nested Monomial Predictions.

Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Yosuke Todo, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2021, 2021

2020

Finding Bit-Based Division Property for Ciphers with Complex Linear Layers.

Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang

IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2020

Finding Bit-Based Division Property for Ciphers with Complex Linear Layer.

Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020

An Algebraic Formulation of the Division Property: Revisiting Degree Evaluations, Cube Attacks, and Key-Independent Sums.

Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang

Proceedings of the Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2020, 2020

MixColumns Coefficient Property and Security of the AES with A Secret S-Box.

Xin An, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2020, 2020

2019

Related-Tweak Statistical Saturation Cryptanalysis and Its Application on QARMA.

Muzhou Li, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019

Automatic Search for a Variant of Division Property Using Three Subsets.

Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2019, 2019

2018

Automatic Search for A Variant of Division Property Using Three Subsets (Full Version).

Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2018

Towards Key-Dependent Integral and Impossible Differential Distinguishers on 5-Round AES.

Kai Hu, Tingting Cui, Chao Gao, Meiqin Wang

Proceedings of the Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2018, 2018