2026 Christian Rechberger: 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	47	6429	6241	49	47	139	10319

Overview

Christian Rechberger is affiliated with Graz University of Technology in Austria. Their research focus is primarily within the broad field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a variety of aspects related to cryptography and security. These topics include:

Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Coding theory and cryptography
Cryptography and Data Security
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Graph theory and CDMA systems
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

Christian Rechberger has contributed extensively to the academic literature with 79 publications in Computer Science. Notable recent papers include:

"Pasta: A Case for Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption," 2023, published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"Shorter Signatures Based on Tailor-Made Minimalist Symmetric-Key Crypto," 2022, published in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
"New Results on NMAC/HMAC when Instantiated with Popular Hash Functions," 2020, published in JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science
"Reinforced Concrete," 2022, published in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
"Privately Connecting Mobility to Infectious Diseases via Applied Cryptography," 2022, published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

The frequent coauthors associated with Christian Rechberger's research include:

Lorenzo Grassi
Roman Walch
Markus Schofnegger
Reinhard Lüftenegger
Daniel Kales

Prominent publication venues where this scientist has contributed multiple works are:

IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Best Publications

Threshold implementations against side-channel attacks and glitches

Svetla Nikova;Christian Rechberger;Vincent Rijmen

987
Citations
PRINCE – A Low-latency Block Cipher for Pervasive Computing Applications

Julia Borghoff;Anne Canteaut;Tim Güneysu;Elif Bilge Kavun

815
Citations
PRINCE: a low-latency block cipher for pervasive computing applications

Julia Borghoff;Anne Canteaut;Tim Güneysu;Elif Bilge Kavun

805
Citations
Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES.

Andrey Bogdanov;Dmitry Khovratovich;Christian Rechberger

767
Citations
Ciphers for MPC and FHE.

Martin R. Albrecht;Christian Rechberger;Thomas Schneider;Tyge Tiessen

386
Citations
Grøstl - a SHA-3 candidate

Praveen Gauravaram;Lars R. Knudsen;Krystian Matusiewicz;Florian Mendel

360
Citations
Finding SHA-1 characteristics: general results and applications

Christophe De Cannière;Christian Rechberger

359
Citations
Post-Quantum Zero-Knowledge and Signatures from Symmetric-Key Primitives.

Melissa Chase;David Derler;Steven Goldfeder;Claudio Orlandi

314
Citations
A case against currently used hash functions in RFID protocols

Martin Feldhofer;Christian Rechberger

299
Citations
MiMC: Efficient Encryption and Cryptographic Hashing with Minimal Multiplicative Complexity

Martin R. Albrecht;Lorenzo Grassi;Christian Rechberger;Christian Rechberger;Arnab Roy

299
Citations
The Rebound Attack: Cryptanalysis of Reduced Whirlpool and Grøstl

Florian Mendel;Christian Rechberger;Martin Schläffer;Søren S. Thomsen

285
Citations
Practical template attacks

Christian Rechberger;Elisabeth Oswald

274
Citations
New Features of Latin Dances: Analysis of Salsa, ChaCha, and Rumba

Jean-Philippe Aumasson;Simon Fischer;Shahram Khazaei;Willi Meier

214
Citations
Bicliques for preimages: attacks on skein-512 and the SHA-2 family

Dmitry Khovratovich;Christian Rechberger;Alexandra Savelieva

213
Citations
A 3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack: cryptanalysis of the lightweight block cipher KTANTAN

Andrey Bogdanov;Christian Rechberger

169
Citations
Rebound Distinguishers: Results on the Full Whirlpool Compression Function

Mario Lamberger;Florian Mendel;Christian Rechberger;Vincent Rijmen

164
Citations
Advanced Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks: First Results on Full Tiger, and Improved Results on MD4 and SHA-2

Jian Guo;San Ling;Christian Rechberger;Huaxiong Wang

152
Citations
Preimages for Reduced SHA-0 and SHA-1

Christophe De Cannière;Christian Rechberger

132
Citations
Collisions for 70-Step SHA-1: On the Full Cost of Collision Search

Christophe De Cannière;Florian Mendel;Christian Rechberger

110
Citations
MPC-Friendly Symmetric Key Primitives

Lorenzo Grassi;Christian Rechberger;Dragos Rotaru;Peter Scholl

109
Citations
Poseidon: A New Hash Function for Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems

Lorenzo Grassi;Dmitry Khovratovich;Christian Rechberger;Arnab Roy

52
Citations
ECRYPT yearly report on algorithms and keysizes

Steve Babbage;Dario Catalano;Carlos Cid;Benne de Weger

46
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Mendel Infineon Technologies (Germany)

Vincent Rijmen KU Leuven

Andrey Bogdanov CYBERCRYPT

Lars R. Knudsen University of Southern Denmark

Gregor Leander Ruhr University Bochum

Bart Preneel KU Leuven

Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Huaxiong Wang Nanyang Technological University

San Ling Nanyang Technological University

Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa

External Links

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