Publications by Khashayar Barooti

On Active Attack Detection in Messaging with Immediate Decryption

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Daniel Patrick Collins, Simone Maria Stefano Colombo, Khashayar Barooti

Springer2023

Public-Key Encryption with Quantum Keys

In the framework of Impagliazzo's five worlds, a distinction is often made between two worlds, one where public-key encryption exists (Cryptomania), and one in which only one-way functions exist (MiniCrypt). However, the boundaries between these worlds can ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2023

Security in the Presence of Quantum Adversaries

Khashayar Barooti

With the looming threat of large-scale quantum computers, a fair portion of recent cryptographic research has focused on examining cryptographic primitives from the perspective of a quantum adversary. Shor's 1994 result revealed that quantum computers can ...

EPFL2023

New Attacks on LowMC instances with a Single Plaintext/Ciphertext pair

Serge Vaudenay, Subhadeep Banik, Khashayar Barooti, Hailun Yan

Cryptanalysis of the LowMC block cipher when the attacker has access to a single known plaintext/ciphertext pair is a mathematically challenging problem. This is because the attacker is unable to employ most of the standard techniques in symmetric cryptogr ...

2021

Cryptanalysis of LowMC instances using single plaintext/ciphertext pair

Serge Vaudenay, Subhadeep Banik, Fatma Betül Durak, Khashayar Barooti

Arguably one of the main applications of the LowMC family ciphers is in the post-quantum signature scheme PICNIC. Although LowMC family ciphers have been studied from a cryptanalytic point of view before, none of these studies were directly concerned with ...

2020

Cryptanalysis of Plantlet

Subhadeep Banik, Khashayar Barooti

Plantlet is a lightweight stream cipher designed by Mikhalev, Armknecht and Muller in IACR ToSC 2017. It has a Grain-like structure with two state registers of size 40 and 61 bits. In spite of this, the cipher does not seem to lose in security against gene ...

2019