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Overview

Willi Meier is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to various subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Information Systems.

The main topics of their research work include:

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

The scientist's publication portfolio features papers in various academic venues, with a notable presence in:

  • IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • Journal of Cryptology
  • The Computer Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Designs Codes and Cryptography

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Generalized related-key rectangle attacks on block ciphers with linear key schedule: applications to SKINNY and GIFT," 2020, published in Designs Codes and Cryptography
  • "Modeling for Three-Subset Division Property without Unknown Subset," 2021, published in Journal of Cryptology
  • "New Low-Memory Algebraic Attacks on LowMC in the Picnic Setting," 2022, published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • "Revisiting Cryptanalysis on ChaCha From Crypto 2020 and Eurocrypt 2021," 2022, published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • "Weak Keys in Reduced AEGIS and Tiaoxin," 2021, published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, reflected in frequent co-authors including:

  • Takanori Isobe
  • Fukang Liu
  • Santanu Sarkar
  • Yosuke Todo

Their research spans multiple aspects of cybersecurity, cryptanalysis, and hardware security, with contributions addressing both theoretical and applied problems. This depth is demonstrated through a sustained publication record and active participation in specialized cryptographic venues.

Best Publications

  • Algebraic attacks on stream ciphers with linear feedback

    Nicolas T. Courtois;Willi Meier

  • Fast correlation attacks on certain stream ciphers

    Willi Meier;Othmar Staffelbach

  • Grain: a stream cipher for constrained environments

    Martin Hell;Thomas Johansson;Willi Meier

  • Algebraic Attacks and Decomposition of Boolean Functions

    Willi Meier;Enes Pasalic;Claude Carlet

  • Quark: A Lightweight Hash

    Jean-Philippe Aumasson;Luca Henzen;Willi Meier;María Naya-Plasencia

  • Nonlinearity criteria for cryptographic functions

    Willi Meier;Othmar Staffelbach

  • The Self-Shrinking Generator

    Willi Meier;Othmar Staffelbach

  • A Stream Cipher Proposal: Grain-128

    Martin Hell;Thomas Johansson;Alexander Maximov;Willi Meier

  • Fast correlation attacks on stream ciphers

    W. Meier;O. Staffelbach

  • SHA-3 proposal BLAKE

    Jean-Philippe Aumasson;Luca Henzen;Willi Meier;Raphael C.-W. Phan

  • The Grain Family of Stream Ciphers

    Martin Hell;Thomas Johansson;Alexander Maximov;Willi Meier

  • Grain-128a: a new version of Grain-128 with optional authentication

    Martin Ågren;Martin Hell;Thomas Johansson;Willi Meier

  • Cube Testers and Key Recovery Attacks On Reduced-Round MD6 and Trivium.

    Jean-Philippe Aumasson;Itai Dinur;Willi Meier;Adi Shamir

  • Efficient computation of algebraic immunity for algebraic and fast algebraic attacks

    Frederik Armknecht;Claude Carlet;Philippe Gaborit;Simon Künzli

  • Analysis Methods for (Alleged) RCA

    Lars R. Knudsen;Willi Meier;Bart Preneel;Vincent Rijmen

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

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

  • Analysis of pseudo random sequences generated by cellular automata

    Willi Meier;Othmar Staffelbach

  • Conditional differential cryptanalysis of NLFSR-based cryptosystems

    Simon Knellwolf;Willi Meier;María Naya-Plasencia

  • Cube Attacks on Non-Blackbox Polynomials Based on Division Property

    Yosuke Todo;Takanori Isobe;Yonglin Hao;Willi Meier

  • The conditional correlation attack: a practical attack on bluetooth encryption

    Yi Lu;Willi Meier;Serge Vaudenay

  • Chosen IV statistical analysis for key recovery attacks on stream ciphers

    Simon Fischer;Shahram Khazaei;Willi Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Raphael C.-W. Phan
Raphael C.-W. Phan Monash University Malaysia
Thomas Johansson
Thomas Johansson Lund University
Lars R. Knudsen
Lars R. Knudsen University of Southern Denmark
Serge Vaudenay
Serge Vaudenay École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thomas Peyrin
Thomas Peyrin Nanyang Technological University
Claude Carlet
Claude Carlet Paris 8 University
Florian Mendel
Florian Mendel Infineon Technologies (Germany)
Gregor Leander
Gregor Leander Ruhr University Bochum
Subhamoy Maitra
Subhamoy Maitra Indian Statistical Institute
Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir Weizmann Institute of Science

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