2026 Alex Biryukov: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	59	3432	3336	3	3	246	13640

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Computer Science

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13640

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Luxembourg Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Luxembourg Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Luxembourg Leader Award

Overview

Alex Biryukov is affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

Their main topics of work include:

Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Coding theory and cryptography
Cryptography and Data Security
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Among their recent papers are:

"Lightweight AEAD and Hashing using the Sparkle Permutation Family," 2020, published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
"Differential cryptanalysis of WARP," 2022, published in Journal of Information Security and Applications
"Probing Channel Balances in the Lightning Network," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Lightweight AEAD and Hashing using the Sparkle Permutation Family," 2020, published by HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
"Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances," 2021, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex Biryukov are:

Aleksei Udovenko
Luan Cardoso dos Santos
Vesselin Velichkov
Johann Großschädl
Christof Beierle

The main venues where their research is published include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
Journal of Information Security and Applications
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

Best Publications

Cryptanalysis of Skipjack Reduced to 31 Rounds Using Impossible Differentials

Eli Biham;Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir

1175
Citations
Real Time Cryptanalysis of A5/1 on a PC

Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir;David Wagner

749
Citations
Deanonymisation of Clients in Bitcoin P2P Network

Alex Biryukov;Dmitry Khovratovich;Ivan Pustogarov

682
Citations
Related-key Cryptanalysis of the Full AES-192 and AES-256.

Alex Biryukov;Dmitry Khovratovich

674
Citations
Slide Attacks

Alex Biryukov;David Wagner

521
Citations
Data Encryption Standard (DES)

Alex Biryukov;Christophe De Cannière

521
Citations
Cryptanalytic Time/Memory/Data Tradeoffs for Stream Ciphers

Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir

502
Citations
Distinguisher and Related-Key Attack on the Full AES-256

Alex Biryukov;Dmitry Khovratovich;Ivica Nikolić

444
Citations
Advanced slide attacks

Alex Biryukov;David Wagner

329
Citations
Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization

A. Biryukov;I. Pustogarov;R. Weinmann

302
Citations
Structural Cryptanalysis of SASAS

Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir

297
Citations
Key recovery attacks of practical complexity on AES-256 variants with up to 10 rounds

Alex Biryukov;Orr Dunkelman;Nathan Keller;Dmitry Khovratovich

268
Citations
Bitcoin over Tor isn't a Good Idea

Alex Biryukov;Ivan Pustogarov

267
Citations
On multiple linear approximations

Alex Biryukov;Christophe De Canniere;Michaël Quisquater

252
Citations
Miss in the Middle Attacks on IDEA and Khufu

Eli Biham;Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir

251
Citations
A toolbox for cryptanalysis: linear and affine equivalence algorithms

Alex Biryukov;Christophe De Cannièere;An Braeken;Bart Preneel

233
Citations
Argon2: New Generation of Memory-Hard Functions for Password Hashing and Other Applications

Alex Biryukov;Daniel Dinu;Dmitry Khovratovich

230
Citations
Differential Analysis of Block Ciphers SIMON and SPECK

Alex Biryukov;Arnab Roy;Vesselin Velichkov

199
Citations
Triathlon of Lightweight Block Ciphers for the Internet of Things

Daniel Dinu;Yann Le Corre;Dmitry Khovratovich;Léo Perrin

197
Citations
Content and Popularity Analysis of Tor Hidden Services

Alex Biryukov;Ivan Pustogarov;Fabrice Thill;Ralf-Philipp Weinmann

180
Citations
Distinguisher and Related-Key Attack on the Full AES-256 (Extended Version).

Alex Biryukov;Dmitry Khovratovich;Ivica Nikolic

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Preneel KU Leuven

Adi Shamir Weizmann Institute of Science

Eli Biham Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa

Douglas R. Stinson University of Waterloo

Joos Vandewalle KU Leuven

Vipul Goyal Carnegie Mellon University

David Wagner University of California, Berkeley

Eyal Kushilevitz Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Guang Gong University of Waterloo

External Links

Wikipedia of Alex Biryukov Personal website of Alex Biryukov Google Scholar page

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