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Kaoru Kurosawa

Kaoru Kurosawa

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Computer Science
Japan
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
8226
World Ranking
6538
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kaoru Kurosawa is a researcher affiliated with Ibaraki University in Japan. The primary field of their scholarly work is Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics that characterize Kurosawa's research include Cryptography and Data Security, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Coding theory and cryptography, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption, Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, and Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic.

Among their recent academic papers, the following works are documented:

  • Highly Nonlinear t-Resilient Functions, published in 2020 in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Some Basic Properties of General Nonperfect Secret Sharing Schemes (2020) published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • CCA-Secure Leakage-Resilient Identity-Based Encryption without q-Type Assumptions (2020) published in IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences
  • Boosting CPA to CCA2 for Leakage-Resilient Attribute-Based Encryption by Using New QA-NIZK (2021) in IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences
  • A Provably Secure and Efficient Verifiable Shuffle based on a Variant of the Paillier Cryptosystem (2020) published in TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology)

Kurosawa has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Wakaha Ogata, Toi Tomita, Reo Eriguchi, Koji Nuida, and Takashi Satoh. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications, with the most frequent coauthors being Wakaha Ogata and Toi Tomita.

Their scholarly contributions have appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences
  • TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology)

Best Publications

  • OMAC: One-key CBC MAC

    Tetsu Iwata;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • Efficient anonymous channel and all/nothing election scheme

    Choonsik Park;Kazutomo Itoh;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • A new paradigm of hybrid encryption scheme

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Yvo Desmedt;Yvo Desmedt

  • UC-Secure Searchable Symmetric Encryption

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Yasuhiro Ohtaki

  • Optimum traitor tracing and asymmetric schemes

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Yvo Desmedt;Yvo Desmedt

  • Oblivious keyword search

    Wakaha Ogata;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • Multi-recipient Public-Key Encryption with Shortened Ciphertext

    Kaoru Kurosawa

  • Tag-KEM/DEM: a new framework for hybrid encryption and a new analysis of kurosawa-desmedt KEM

    Masayuki Abe;Rosario Gennaro;Kaoru Kurosawa;Victor Shoup

  • How to break a practical MIX and design a new one

    Yvo Desmedt;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • A relationship between linear complexity and k-error linear complexity

    K. Kurosawa;F. Sato;T. Sakata;W. Kishimoto

  • Fault tolerant anonymous channel

    Wakaha Ogata;Kaoru Kurosawa;Kazue Sako;Kazunori Takatani

  • Birthday paradox for multi-collisions

    Kazuhiro Suzuki;Dongvu Tonien;Kaoru Kurosawa;Koji Toyota

  • How to Update Documents Verifiably in Searchable Symmetric Encryption

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Yasuhiro Ohtaki

  • New combinatorial designs and their applications to authentication codes and secret sharing schemes

    Wakaha Ogata;Kaoru Kurosawa;Douglas R. Stinson;Hajime Saido

  • From Digital Signature to ID-based Identification/Signature

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Swee-Huay Heng

  • Nonperfect secret sharing schemes and matroids

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Koji Okada;Keiichi Sakano;Wakaha Ogata

  • Tag-KEM/DEM: A New Framework for Hybrid Encryption

    Masayuki Abe;Rosario Gennaro;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • TMAC: two-key CBC MAC

    Kaoru Kurosawa;Tetsu Iwata

  • New EIGamal Type Threshold Digital Signature Scheme

    Choonsik Park;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • Efficient Chosen Ciphertext Secure Public Key Encryption under the Computational Diffie-Hellman Assumption.

    Goichiro Hanaoka;Kaoru Kurosawa

  • Optimum secret sharing scheme secure against cheating

    Wakaha Ogata;Kaoru Kurosawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvo Desmedt
Yvo Desmedt The University of Texas at Dallas
Tsuyoshi Takagi
Tsuyoshi Takagi University of Tokyo
Masayuki Abe
Masayuki Abe Kyoto University
Douglas R. Stinson
Douglas R. Stinson University of Waterloo
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini University of Calgary
Rosario Gennaro
Rosario Gennaro City College of New York
Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup New York University
Thomas Johansson
Thomas Johansson Lund University
Kazuo Ohta
Kazuo Ohta University of Electro-Communications
Osamu Watanabe
Osamu Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology

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