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Overview

John Kelsey is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their primary research focus is within the field of Computer Science, with notable contributions to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The researcher has contributed to topics encompassing Cryptography and Data Security, graph theory and CDMA systems, Coding theory and cryptography, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Video Analysis and Summarization, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, and Advanced Data Compression Techniques.

Recent publications by John Kelsey include:

  • "XDRBG: A Proposed Deterministic Random Bit Generator Based on Any XOF" (2024) published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • "Turning Hash-Based Signatures into Distributed Signatures and Threshold Signatures" (2025) published in IACR Communications in Cryptology

The researcher has frequently published in the following venues:

  • IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • IACR Communications in Cryptology

Collaborations have included work with Stefan Lucks, Ray Perlner, David A. Cooper, Stephan Müller, and Dana Dachman-Soled.

Best Publications

  • Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael

    Niels Ferguson;John Kelsey;Stefan Lucks;Bruce Schneier

  • Secure audit logs to support computer forensics

    Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey

  • Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators

    Elaine B. Barker;John M. Kelsey

  • Second preimages on n -bit hash functions for much less than 2 n work

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier

  • Status report on the second round of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process

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  • Key-Schedule Cryptoanalysis of IDEA, G-DES, GOST, SAFER, and Triple-DES

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier;David Wagner

  • Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier;David Wagner;Chris Hall

  • Cryptographic support for secure logs on untrusted machines

    Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey

  • Event auditing system

    Bruce Schneier;John M. Kelsey

  • Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation

    Meltem Sonmez Turan;Elaine B. Barker;John M. Kelsey;Kerry A. McKay

  • Side Channel Cryptanalysis of Product Ciphers

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier;David Wagner;Chris Hall

  • Related-key cryptanalysis of 3-WAY, Biham-DES, CAST, DES-X, NewDES, RC2, and TEA

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier;David Wagner

  • Unbalanced Feistel Networks and Block Cipher Design

    Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey

  • Herding hash functions and the nostradamus attack

    John Kelsey;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Protocol interactions and the chosen protocol attack

    J. Kelsey;B. Schneier;D. Wagner

  • The Twofish encryption algorithm: a 128-bit block cipher

    Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey;Doug Whiting;David Wagner

  • Digital signature with auditing bits

    Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey

  • Amplified Boomerang Attacks Against Reduced-Round MARS and Serpent

    John Kelsey;Tadayoshi Kohno;Bruce Schneier

  • Side channel cryptanalysis of product ciphers

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier;David Wagner;Chris Hall

  • Helix: Fast Encryption and Authentication in a Single Cryptographic Primitive

    Niels Ferguson;Doug Whiting;Bruce Schneier;John Kelsey

  • Second preimages on n-bit hash functions for much less than 2n work

    John Kelsey;Bruce Schneier

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier Harvard University
David Wagner
David Wagner University of California, Berkeley
Tadayoshi Kohno
Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington
Lars R. Knudsen
Lars R. Knudsen University of Southern Denmark
Orr Dunkelman
Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa
David Chaum
David Chaum DigiCash
Ed Dawson
Ed Dawson Queensland University of Technology

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