On the Key-Commitment Properties of Forkcipher-based AEADs
Mostafizar Rahman, Samir Kundu, Takanori Isobe, "On the Key-Commitment Properties of Forkcipher-based AEADs." IACR Communications in Cryptology, 2025.
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Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
Depending on DEEPAND: Cryptanalysis of NLFSR-based Lightweight Ciphers TinyJambu, Katan and Ktantan
Amit Jana, Mostafizar Rahman, Dhiman Saha, "Depending on DEEPAND: Cryptanalysis of NLFSR-based Lightweight Ciphers TinyJambu, Katan and Ktantan." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025.
AETHER: An Ultra-High Throughput and Low Energy Authenticated Encryption Scheme
Subhadeep Banik, Andrea Caforio, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto, "AETHER: An Ultra-High Throughput and Low Energy Authenticated Encryption Scheme." IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2025.
Yoyo cryptanalysis on Future
Sandip Mondal, Mostafizar Rahman, Santanu Sarkar, Avishek Adhikari, "Yoyo cryptanalysis on Future." International Journal of Applied Cryptography, 2024.
Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes
Patrick Derbez, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Takanori Isobe, Mostafizar Rahman, Andr{\'e} Schrottenloher, "Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes." IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2024.
Implementing Grover’s on AES-based AEAD schemes
Surajit Mandal, Ravi Anand, Mostafizar Rahman, Santanu Sarkar, Takanori Isobe, "Implementing Grover’s on AES-based AEAD schemes." Scientific Reports, 2024.
Gleeok: A Family of Low-Latency PRFs and its Applications to Authenticated Encryption
Ravi Anand, Subhadeep Banik, Andrea Caforio, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Fukang Liu, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto, "Gleeok: A Family of Low-Latency PRFs and its Applications to Authenticated Encryption." IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2024.
Differential fault attack on AES-based encryption schemes: application to B5G/6G ciphers—Rocca, Rocca-S and AEGIS
Ravi Anand, Takanori Isobe, Anup Kundu, Mostafizar Rahman, Sahiba Suryawanshi, "Differential fault attack on AES-based encryption schemes: application to B5G/6G ciphers—Rocca, Rocca-S and AEGIS." Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2024.
BIZness: Bit Invariant Zero-Sum Property Based on Division Trail
Shibam Ghosh, Anup Kundu, Mostafizar Rahman, Dhiman Saha, "BIZness: Bit Invariant Zero-Sum Property Based on Division Trail." In the proceedings of International Conference on Cryptology in India, 2024.
ASURA: An Efficient Large-State Tweakable Block Cipher for ARM Environment
Atsushi Tanaka, Rentaro Shiba, Kosei Sakamoto, Mostafizar Rahman, Takuro Shiraya, Takanori Isobe, "ASURA: An Efficient Large-State Tweakable Block Cipher for ARM Environment." In the proceedings of International Conference on Cryptology in India, 2024.
Revisiting the Boomerang Attack from a Perspective of 3-differential
Libo Wang, Ling Song, Baofeng Wu, Mostafizar Rahman, Takanori Isobe, "Revisiting the Boomerang Attack from a Perspective of 3-differential." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.
Revisiting Yoyo Tricks on AES
Sandip Mondal, Mostafizar Rahman, Santanu Sarkar, Avishek Adhikari, "Revisiting Yoyo Tricks on AES." IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2023.
Ghidle: Efficient Large-State Block Ciphers for Post-quantum Security
Motoki Nakahashi, Rentaro Shiba, Ravi Anand, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto, Fukang Liu, Takanori Isobe, "Ghidle: Efficient Large-State Block Ciphers for Post-quantum Security." In the proceedings of Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, 2023.
Divide and Rule: DiFA-Division Property Based Fault Attacks on PRESENT and GIFT
Anup Kundu, Shibam Ghosh, Dhiman Saha, Mostafizar Rahman, "Divide and Rule: DiFA-Division Property Based Fault Attacks on PRESENT and GIFT." In the proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2023.
Grover on katan: Quantum resource estimation
Mostafizar Rahman, Goutam Paul, "Grover on katan: Quantum resource estimation." IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2022.
Grover on Present: Quantum Resource Estimation
Mostafizar Rahman, Goutam Paul, "Grover on Present: Quantum Resource Estimation." Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2021.
Boomeyong: Embedding Yoyo within Boomerang and its Applications to Key Recovery Attacks on AES and Pholkos
Mostafizar Rahman, Dhiman Saha, Goutam Paul, "Boomeyong: Embedding Yoyo within Boomerang and its Applications to Key Recovery Attacks on AES and Pholkos." IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2021.
Quantum Attacks on HCTR and its Variants
Mostafizar Rahman, Goutam Paul, "Quantum Attacks on HCTR and its Variants." IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2020.
Cryptanalysis of FlexAEAD
Mostafizar Rahman, Dhiman Saha, Goutam Paul, "Cryptanalysis of FlexAEAD." In the proceedings of Progress in Cryptology-AFRICACRYPT 2020: 12th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Cairo, Egypt, July 20--22, 2020, Proceedings, 2020.
Cryptanalysis of forkaes
Subhadeep Banik, Jannis Bossert, Amit Jana, Eik List, Stefan Lucks, Willi Meier, Mostafizar Rahman, Dhiman Saha, Yu Sasaki, "Cryptanalysis of forkaes." In the proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2019.
New Yoyo Tricks with AES-based Permutations
Dhiman Saha, Mostafizar Rahman, Goutam Paul, "New Yoyo Tricks with AES-based Permutations." IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2018.
Talks
Locking Secrets: End-to-End Encryption and the Importance of Commitment
Talk at University of Hyogo (JENSYS program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan), Hyogo, Japan
Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes
Talk at IIT Bhilai, Bhilai, India
Key Committing Attacks against AES-based AEAD Schemes
Talk at Fast Software Encryption 2024, Leuven, Belgium
Quantum Cryptography
Talk at Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India
Capturing the Dependency between Correlated AND gates using MILP
Talk at Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Quantum Attacks on Symmetric-key Schemes
Talk at Faculty Development Program on "Cryptography and Blockchain", Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India
Boomeyong: Embedding Yoyo within Boomerang and its Applications to Key Recovery Attacks on AES and Pholkos
Talk at Fast Software Encryption 2022, Athens, Greece
Quantum Security of Classical Cryptosystems
Talk at Summer School on Quantum Information and Quantum Technology-2021, IISER Kolkata, Kolkata, India
New Yoyo Tricks with AES-based Permutations
Talk at Fast Software Encryption 2019, Paris, France
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams