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Overview

Florian Mendel is affiliated with Infineon Technologies in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with significant contributions to several specialized subfields including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, and signal processing.

The main topics covered in Mendel's research include cryptographic implementations and security, chaos-based image and signal encryption, coding theory and cryptography, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware security, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Mendel has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • Journal of Cryptology
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Designs Codes and Cryptography

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Mendel include:

  • Ascon v1.2: Lightweight Authenticated Encryption and Hashing, 2021, Journal of Cryptology
  • Protecting against Statistical Ineffective Fault Attacks, 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Isap v2.0, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • Protecting against Statistical Ineffective Fault Attacks, 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Bounds for the Security of Ascon against Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis, 2022, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Christoph Dobraunig
  • Maria Eichlseder
  • Robert Primas
  • Stefan Mangard
  • Bart Mennink

Best Publications

  • Grøstl - a SHA-3 candidate

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

  • Ascon v1.2: Lightweight Authenticated Encryption and Hashing

    Christoph Dobraunig;Christoph Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Florian Mendel;Martin Schläffer

  • The Rebound Attack: Cryptanalysis of Reduced Whirlpool and Grøstl

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

  • Cryptology and network security: 11th international conference, CANS 2012, Darmstadt, Germany, December 12-14, 2012 : proceedings

    Josef Pieprzyk;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Mark Manulis

  • Rebound Distinguishers: Results on the Full Whirlpool Compression Function

    Mario Lamberger;Florian Mendel;Christian Rechberger;Vincent Rijmen

  • ALE: AES-Based Lightweight Authenticated Encryption

    Andrey Bogdanov;Florian Mendel;Francesco Regazzoni;Vincent Rijmen

  • FIDES: lightweight authenticated cipher with side-channel resistance for constrained hardware

    Begül Bilgin;Andrey Bogdanov;Miroslav Knežević;Florian Mendel

  • SIFA: Exploiting Ineffective Fault Inductions on Symmetric Cryptography

    Christoph Erwin Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Thomas Korak;Stefan Mangard

  • Gimli : A Cross-Platform Permutation

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Stefan Kölbl;Stefan Lucks;Pedro Maat Costa Massolino

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

    Christophe De Cannière;Florian Mendel;Christian Rechberger

  • Improved Cryptanalysis of the Reduced Grøstl Compression Function, ECHO Permutation and AES Block Cipher

    Florian Mendel;Thomas Peyrin;Christian Rechberger;Martin Schläffer

  • Finding SHA-2 Characteristics: Searching through a Minefield of Contradictions

    Florian Mendel;Tomislav Nad;Martin Schläffer

  • Rasta: A Cipher with Low ANDdepth and Few ANDs per Bit

    Christoph Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Lorenzo Grassi;Virginie Lallemand

  • Analysis of Step-Reduced SHA-256.

    Florian Mendel;Norbert Pramstaller;Christian Rechberger;Vincent Rijmen

  • Collisions and Other Non-random Properties for Step-Reduced SHA-256

    Sebastiaan Indesteege;Florian Mendel;Bart Preneel;Christian Rechberger

  • Improving Local Collisions: New Attacks on Reduced SHA-256.

    Florian Mendel;Tomislav Nad;Martin Schläffer

  • Higher-Order Differential Attack on Reduced SHA-256.

    Mario Lamberger;Florian Mendel

  • Analysis of SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256.

    Christoph Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Florian Mendel

  • Cryptanalysis of the GOST Hash Function

    Florian Mendel;Norbert Pramstaller;Christian Rechberger;Marcin Kontak

  • Statistical Ineffective Fault Attacks on Masked AES with Fault Countermeasures

    Christoph Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Hannes Gross;Stefan Mangard

  • Submission to the CAESAR Competition

    Christoph Dobraunig;Maria Eichlseder;Florian Mendel

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Rechberger
Christian Rechberger Graz University of Technology
Stefan Mangard
Stefan Mangard Graz University of Technology
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Thomas Peyrin
Thomas Peyrin Nanyang Technological University
Yu Sasaki
Yu Sasaki NTT (Japan)
Willi Meier
Willi Meier University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Lars R. Knudsen
Lars R. Knudsen University of Southern Denmark
Lei Wang
Lei Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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