Kai Hu

70 papers B 4Misc 4Journal 51Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Cryptanalytic Extraction of Convolutional Neural Networks.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Xiaohan Sun, Hao Lei, Longxiang Wei, Xiaokang Qi, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, Wei Wang
2026 J jnl
Cryptanalytic Extraction of Recurrent Neural Network Models.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Longxiang Wei, Hao Lei, Xiaokang Qi, Xiaohan Sun, Lei Gao, Kai Hu, Wei Wang, Meiqin Wang
2026 J jnl
Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang
2026 J jnl
Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang
2026 J jnl
Round-Based Approximation of (Higher-Order) Differential-Linear Correlation.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Addendum to How Small Can S-boxes Be?
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Yu Sun, Lixuan Wu, Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Addendum to How Small Can S-boxes Be?
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Yu Sun, Lixuan Wu, Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Adding Feeding Forward Back to the Sponge Construction.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Chun Guo, Kai Hu, Yanhong Fan, Yong Fu, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Cryptanalysis of ChiLow with Cube-Like Attacks.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Shuo Peng, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang
2025 — conf
Exploring AI-Assisted Cryptanalytic Attacks on Multisets.
Inscrypt (1)
Longxiang Wei, Hao Lei, Kai Hu, Liu Zhang, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Exploring Core Monomial Prediction Further: Weak-Key Superpoly Recovery for 852-Round Trivium.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Guowei Liu
2025 J jnl
How Small Can S-boxes Be.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Qing Ling, Yan He, Kai Hu, Yu Sun, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
How Small Can S-boxes Be?
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Qing Ling, Yan He, Kai Hu, Yu Sun, Meiqin Wang
2025 B conf
Improved Key Recovery Attacks of Ascon.
CT-RSA
Shuo Peng, Kai Hu, Jiahui He, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Improved Key Recovery Attacks of Ascon.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Shuo Peng, Kai Hu, Jiahui He, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Meet-in-the-middle attack on round-reduced SCARF under single pair-of-tweaks setting.
Des. Codes Cryptogr.
Siwei Chen, Kai Hu, Guozhen Liu, Zhongfeng Niu, Quan Quan Tan, Shichang Wang
2025 J jnl
Mix-Basis Geometric Approach to Boomerang Distinguishers.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Chengcheng Chang, Hosein Hadipour, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Periodic Table of Cryptanalysis: Geometric Approach with Different Bases.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Chi Zhang, Chengcheng Chang, Jiashu Zhang, Meiqin Wang, Thomas Peyrin
2025 B conf
Quasidifferential Saves Infeasible Differential - Improved Weak-Key Key-Recovery Attacks on Round-Reduced GIFT.
CT-RSA
Chengcheng Chang, Meiqin Wang, Wei Wang, Kai Hu
2025 J jnl
Quasidifferential Saves Infeasible Differential: Improved Weak-Key Key-Recovery Attacks on Round-Reduced GIFT.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Chengcheng Chang, Meiqin Wang, Wei Wang, Kai Hu
2025 J jnl
Related-Key Differential and Boomerang Cryptanalysis in the Fixed-Key Model.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Chengcheng Chang, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang
2025 J jnl
Towards Better Integral Distinguishers over 픽
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Muzhou Li, Jiamin Cui, Longzheng Cui, Kai Hu, Chao Niu, Meiqin Wang
2025 — conf
Unlocking Mix-Basis Potential: Geometric Approach for Combined Attacks.
CRYPTO (5)
Kai Hu, Chi Zhang, Chengcheng Chang, Jiashu Zhang, Meiqin Wang, Thomas Peyrin
2024 J jnl
Cryptanalysis of Full-Round BipBip.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Jinliang Wang, Christina Boura, Patrick Derbez, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Improved Conditional Cube Attacks on Ascon AEADs in Nonce-Respecting Settings with a Break-Fix Strategy.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Kai Hu
2024 J jnl
Integral Attack on the Full FUTURE Block Cipher.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Zeyu Xu, Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2024 — conf
Massive Superpoly Recovery with a Meet-in-the-Middle Framework - Improved Cube Attacks on Trivium and Kreyvium.
EUROCRYPT (1)
Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Hao Lei, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Massive Superpoly Recovery with a Meet-in-the-middle Framework - Improved Cube Attacks on Trivium and Kreyvium.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Hao Lei, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on 4+4 Rounds of SCARF under Single-Tweak Setting.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Siwei Chen, Kai Hu, Guozhen Liu, Zhongfeng Niu, Quan Quan Tan, Shichang Wang
2024 J jnl
Perfect Monomial Prediction for Modular Addition.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Trevor Yap
2024 J jnl
Perfect Monomial Prediction for Modular Addition.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Kai Hu, Trevor Yap
2024 — conf
Revisiting Truncated Differential Attack from the Perspective of Equivalent Propagation Equations - Improved Attacks on TWINE and LBlock.
Inscrypt (2)
Shiqi Hou, Muzhou Li, Kai Hu, Shichang Wang, Bart Preneel
2024 — conf
Speeding Up Preimage and Key-Recovery Attacks with Highly Biased Differential-Linear Approximations.
CRYPTO (4)
Zhongfeng Niu, Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Speeding up Preimage and Key-Recovery Attacks with Highly Biased Differential-Linear Approximations.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Zhongfeng Niu, Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Symmetric Twin Column Parity Mixers and Their Applications.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Hao Lei, Raghvendra Rohit, Guoxiao Liu, Jiahui He, Mohamed Rachidi, Keting Jia, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
Symmetric Twin Column Parity Mixers and their Applications.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Hao Lei, Raghvendra Rohit, Guoxiao Liu, Jiahui He, Mohamed Rachidi, Keting Jia, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2024 J jnl
uKNIT: Breaking Round-alignment for Cipher Design - Featuring uKNIT-BC, an Ultra Low-Latency Block Cipher.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Mustafa Khairallah, Thomas Peyrin, Quan Quan Tan
2023 Misc conf
More Balanced Polynomials: Cube Attacks on 810- And 825-Round Trivium with Practical Complexities.
SAC
Hao Lei, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2023 J jnl
More Balanced Polynomials: Cube Attacks on 810- and 825-Round Trivium with Practical Complexities.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Hao Lei, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2023 — conf
Revisiting Higher-Order Differential-Linear Attacks from an Algebraic Perspective.
ASIACRYPT (3)
Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin, Quan Quan Tan, Trevor Yap
2022 Misc conf
Finding All Impossible Differentials When Considering the DDT.
SAC
Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin, Meiqin Wang
2022 J jnl
Finding All Impossible Differentials When Considering the DDT.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin, Meiqin Wang
2022 B conf
Integral Attacks on Pyjamask-96 and Round-Reduced Pyjamask-128.
CT-RSA
Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang
2022 J jnl
On the Field-Based Division Property: Applications to MiMC, Feistel MiMC and GMiMC (Full Version).
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, Puwen Wei
2022 — conf
On the Field-Based Division Property: Applications to MiMC, Feistel MiMC and GMiMC.
ASIACRYPT (3)
Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, Puwen Wei
2022 J jnl
Revisiting Higher-Order Differential(-Linear) Attacks from an Algebraic Perspective - Applications to Ascon, Grain v1, Xoodoo, and ChaCha.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Thomas Peyrin
2022 — conf
Stretching Cube Attacks: Improved Methods to Recover Massive Superpolies.
ASIACRYPT (4)
Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Bart Preneel, Meiqin Wang
2022 J jnl
Stretching Cube Attacks: Improved Methods to Recover Massive Superpolies.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Bart Preneel, Meiqin Wang
2021 J jnl
A Secure IoT Firmware Update Scheme Against SCPA and DoS Attacks.
J. Comput. Sci. Technol.
Yan-Hong Fan, Mei-Qin Wang, Yan-Bin Li, Kai Hu, Muzhou Li
2021 J jnl
Integral Attacks on Pyjamask-96 and Round-Reduced Pyjamask-128.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jiamin Cui, Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang
2021 — conf
Massive Superpoly Recovery with Nested Monomial Predictions.
ASIACRYPT (1)
Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Yosuke Todo, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang
2021 J jnl
Massive Superpoly Recovery with Nested Monomial Predictions.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Yosuke Todo, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang
2021 J jnl
Misuse-Free Key-Recovery and Distinguishing Attacks on 7-Round Ascon.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Raghvendra Rohit, Kai Hu, Sumanta Sarkar, Siwei Sun
2021 J jnl
Misuse-Free Key-Recovery and Distinguishing Attacks on 7-Round Ascon.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Raghvendra Rohit, Kai Hu, Sumanta Sarkar, Siwei Sun
2021 Misc conf
Pushing the Limits: Searching for Implementations with the Smallest Area for Lightweight S-Boxes.
INDOCRYPT
Zhenyu Lu, Weijia Wang, Kai Hu, Yanhong Fan, Lixuan Wu, Meiqin Wang
2021 J jnl
Pushing the Limits: Searching for Implementations with the Smallest Area for Lightweight S-Boxes.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Zhenyu Lu, Weijia Wang, Kai Hu, Yanhong Fan, Lixuan Wu, Meiqin Wang
2021 J jnl
STP models of optimal differential and linear trail for S-box based ciphers.
Sci. China Inf. Sci.
Yu Liu, Huicong Liang, Muzhou Li, Luning Huang, Kai Hu, Chenhe Yang, Meiqin Wang
2020 — conf
An Algebraic Formulation of the Division Property: Revisiting Degree Evaluations, Cube Attacks, and Key-Independent Sums.
ASIACRYPT (1)
Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang
2020 J jnl
An Algebraic Formulation of the Division Property: Revisiting Degree Evaluations, Cube Attacks, and Key-Independent Sums.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Siwei Sun, Meiqin Wang, Qingju Wang
2020 J jnl
Finding Bit-Based Division Property for Ciphers with Complex Linear Layer.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang
2020 J jnl
Finding Bit-Based Division Property for Ciphers with Complex Linear Layers.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Kai Hu, Qingju Wang, Meiqin Wang
2020 — conf
MixColumns Coefficient Property and Security of the AES with A Secret S-Box.
AFRICACRYPT
Xin An, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2020 J jnl
MixColumns Coefficient Property and Security of the AES with A Secret S-Box.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Xin An, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2019 B conf
Automatic Search for a Variant of Division Property Using Three Subsets.
CT-RSA
Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2019 J jnl
Related-Tweak Statistical Saturation Cryptanalysis and Its Application on QARMA.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Muzhou Li, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2019 J jnl
Related-Tweak Statistical Saturation Cryptanalysis and Its Application on QARMA.
IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol.
Muzhou Li, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2019 J jnl
STP Models of Optimal Differential and Linear Trail for S-box Based Ciphers.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Yu Liu, Huicong Liang, Muzhou Li, Luning Huang, Kai Hu, Chenhe Yang, Meiqin Wang
2018 J jnl
Automatic Search for A Variant of Division Property Using Three Subsets (Full Version).
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang
2018 Misc conf
Towards Key-Dependent Integral and Impossible Differential Distinguishers on 5-Round AES.
SAC
Kai Hu, Tingting Cui, Chao Gao, Meiqin Wang
2018 J jnl
Towards Key-Dependent Integral and Impossible Differential Distinguishers on 5-Round AES.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kai Hu, Tingting Cui, Chao Gao, Meiqin Wang