Here is some of the symmetric key crypto research I’ve been working on in the past

  • Aleksandar Kircanski, “Analysis of Boomerang Differential Trails via a SAT-based Constraint Solver URSA”, ACNS 2015, LNCS-9092, pg. 331-349, Springer, 2015 PDF
  • Aleksandar Kircanski, Riham AlTawy and Amr M. Youssef, “A Heuristic for Finding Compatible Differential Paths with Application to HAS-160”, ASIACRYPT 2013, LNCS-8270, Springer, 2013 PDF
  • Aleksandar Kircanski, Yanzhao Shen, Gaoli Wang and Amr M. Youssef, “Boomerang and Slide-Rotational Analysis of SM3 hash function”, Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2012, LNCS-7707, pg. 304-320, Springer, 2013 PDF
  • Alex Biryukov, Aleksandar Kircanski and Amr M. Youssef, “Cryptanalysis of Loiss Stream Cipher”, Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2012, LNCS-7707, pp 119-134, Springer, 2013 PDF
  • Aleksandar Kircanski, Amr M. Youssef “On the sliding property of SNOW 3G and SNOW 2.0”, Information Security, IET, Vol. 5-4, pg. 199-206, December, 2010 PDF
  • Aleksandar Kircanski, Amr M. Youssef, “A Related-Key Attack on TREYFER”, SECUREWARE 2008, pg. 213-217, 2008 PDF