2026 Yu Sasaki: 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	34	12083	11733	185	176	193	5652

Overview

Yu Sasaki is affiliated with NTT (Japan) in Japan and has a significant body of work focused on computer science, particularly in the realms of artificial intelligence and cryptography. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, with notable emphasis on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, computational theory and mathematics, hardware and architecture, and information systems.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Coding theory and cryptography
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Cryptography and Data Security
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic
Graph theory and CDMA systems

Yu Sasaki has contributed to a variety of research papers published mainly in the domain of cryptology and security. Some of the recent papers include:

SKINNY-AEAD and SKINNY-Hash, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
Quantum Attacks without Superposition Queries: the Offline Simon's Algorithm, 2020, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
ESTATE: A Lightweight and Low Energy Authenticated Encryption Mode, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
Pyjamask: Block Cipher and Authenticated Encryption with Highly Efficient Masked Implementation, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
On the Security Margin of TinyJAMBU with Refined Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis, 2020, IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology

The frequent co-authors of Yu Sasaki include:

Yusuke Naito
Takeshi Sugawara
Akinori Hosoyamada
María Naya-Plasencia
Siang Meng Sim

Yu Sasaki's research is regularly published in several key venues that specialize in cryptology and security. The most frequent publication venues are:

IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

The scientist's output reflects a strong focus on advancing knowledge in cryptographic methods, secure hardware implementations, and applied cryptography, integrating theoretical concepts with practical security challenges.

Best Publications

The SKINNY Family of Block Ciphers and its Low-Latency Variant MANTIS.

Christof Beierle;Jérémy Jean;Stefan Kölbl;Gregor Leander

756
Citations
GIFT : A Small Present

Subhadeep Banik;Subhadeep Banik;Sumit Kumar Pandey;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

485
Citations
Finding Preimages in Full MD5 Faster Than Exhaustive Search

Yu Sasaki;Kazumaro Aoki

262
Citations
Preimage Attacks on One-Block MD4, 63-Step MD5 and More

Kazumaro Aoki;Yu Sasaki

204
Citations
New Impossible Differential Search Tool from Design and Cryptanalysis Aspects.

Yu Sasaki;Yosuke Todo

180
Citations
Boomerang Connectivity Table: A New Cryptanalysis Tool.

Carlos Cid;Tao Huang;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

176
Citations
Preimages for Step-Reduced SHA-2

Kazumaro Aoki;Jian Guo;Krystian Matusiewicz;Yu Sasaki

149
Citations
Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks Against Reduced SHA-0 and SHA-1

Kazumaro Aoki;Yu Sasaki

141
Citations
Cryptanalysis of Reduced-round SIMON32 and SIMON48.

Qingju Wang;Zhiqiang Liu;Kerem Varici;Yu Sasaki

126
Citations
Meet-in-the-Middle Preimage Attacks on AES Hashing Modes and an Application to Whirlpool

Yu Sasaki

119
Citations
Quantum Attacks without Superposition Queries: the Offline Simon's Algorithm

Xavier Bonnetain;Akinori Hosoyamada;María Naya-Plasencia;Yu Sasaki

104
Citations
GIFT: A Small Present Towards Reaching the Limit of Lightweight Encryption

Subhadeep Banik;Sumit Kumar Pandey;Thomas Peyrin;Yu Sasaki

92
Citations
Nonlinear Invariant Attack

Yosuke Todo;Gregor Leander;Yu Sasaki

85
Citations
MILP Modeling for (Large) S-boxes to Optimize Probability of Differential Characteristics

Ahmed Abdelkhalek;Yu Sasaki;Yosuke Todo;Mohamed Tolba

83
Citations
Meet-in-the-Middle Technique for Integral Attacks against Feistel Ciphers

Yu Sasaki;Lei Wang

81
Citations
Rebound Attack on the Full LANE Compression Function.

Krystian Matusiewicz;María Naya-Plasencia;Ivica Nikolic;Yu Sasaki

79
Citations
Quantum Demiric-Selçuk Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks: Applications to 6-Round Generic Feistel Constructions

Akinori Hosoyamada;Yu Sasaki

77
Citations
Finding Hash Collisions with Quantum Computers by Using Differential Trails with Smaller Probability than Birthday Bound

Akinori Hosoyamada;Yu Sasaki

74
Citations
Preimage Attacks on 3, 4, and 5-Pass HAVAL

Yu Sasaki;Kazumaro Aoki

73
Citations
Quantum Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks Against Feistel Ciphers

Gembu Ito;Akinori Hosoyamada;Ryutaroh Matsumoto;Yu Sasaki

58
Citations
Out of Oddity – New Cryptanalytic Techniques Against Symmetric Primitives Optimized for Integrity Proof Systems

Tim Beyne;Anne Canteaut;Itai Dinur;Maria Eichlseder;Maria Eichlseder

39
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lei Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Kazuo Ohta University of Electro-Communications

Thomas Peyrin Nanyang Technological University

Gregor Leander Ruhr University Bochum

Florian Mendel Infineon Technologies (Germany)

Anne Canteaut French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Amir Moradi Technical University of Darmstadt

Willi Meier University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa

Vincent Rijmen KU Leuven

External Links

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