Assistant Professor Fukang Liu and Visiting Researcher Yingxin Li Win the Best Paper Award at ASIACRYPT 2024

Assistant Professor Fukang Liu has two papers accepted by Asiacrypt 2024, which is one of the top conferences for cryptographic research. In particular, his collaborative work with Yingxin Li (Visiting Researcher at Institute of Science Tokyo) was rewarded with the Best Paper Award.

In this work on the hash function standard SHA-256, they found the first practical collision attack on 31-step SHA-256, updating the previous record after almost 10 years.

Award-Wining Paper

• Authors：

Yingxin Li (East China Normal University, Visiting Researcher at Institute of Science Tokyo),  Fukang Liu (Institute of Science Tokyo, Assistant Professor),  Gaoli Wang (East China Normal University, Professor),   Xiaoyang Dong (Tsinghua University, Researcher),  Siwei Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor)

• Title：

The First Practical Collision for 31-Step SHA-256

Related Links

• Asiacrypt 2024
• Researcher Information - LIU FUKANG Fukang Liu｜Science Tokyo STAR Search
• Ogata Laboratory