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Publications

An overview of my peer-reviewed journal and international conference papers, along with preprints.

01 / JOURNALS

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

21 papers

2026

  1. IACR CiC
    Generalizing Bit-based Rebound Attacks on AES-like Hashing
    Kodai Taiyama , Ryoma Ito , Kosei Sakamoto , Kazuma Taka , Keita Toyama , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Communications in Cryptology, 2026

2025

  1. IACR CiC
    Exploring SHA Instructions and Its Application to AES-based Schemes
    Takuro Shiraya , Subhadeep Banik , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Ryoma Ito , Mostafizar Rahman , Kosei Sakamoto , Atsushi Tanaka , Shion Utsumi , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Commun. Cryptol., 2025
  2. JISA
    Security analysis of SFrame
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , and Kazuhiko Minematsu
    J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 2025
  3. JISA
    On the effects of neural network-based output prediction attacks on the design of symmetric-key ciphers
    Hayato Watanabe , Ryoma Ito , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 2025
  4. JISA
    Parallel SAT framework to find clustering of differential characteristics and its applications
    Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 2025
  5. IACR ToSC
    Divide-and-Conquer SAT for Exploring Optimal Differential and Linear Characteristics and Its Applications
    Kazuma Taka , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , Rentaro Shiba , Shion Utsumi , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2025
  6. IACR ToSC
    Dialga: A Family of Low-Latency Tweakable Block Ciphers Using Multiple Linear Layers
    Subhadeep Banik , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Kazuma Nakata , Mostafizar Rahman , and Kosei Sakamoto
    IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2025

2023

  1. IEICE Trans.
    PNB Based Differential Cryptanalysis of Salsa20 and ChaCha
    Nasratullah Ghafoori , Atsuko Miyaji , Ryoma Ito , and Shotaro Miyashita
    IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2023
  2. IPSJ JIP
    Cryptanalysis on End-to-End Encryption Schemes of Communication Tools and Its Research Trend
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , and Kazuhiko Minematsu
    J. Inf. Process., 2023
  3. IPSJ JIP
    A Deeper Look into Deep Learning-based Output Prediction Attacks Using Weak SPN Block Ciphers
    Hayato Kimura , Keita Emura , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kazuto Ogawa , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    J. Inf. Process., 2023
  4. IACR TCHES
    Areion: Highly-Efficient Permutations and Its Applications to Hash Functions for Short Input
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Fukang Liu , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Motoki Nakahashi , Kosei Sakamoto , and Rentaro Shiba
    IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst., 2023
  5. IACR ToSC
    Key Committing Security of AEZ and More
    Yu Long Chen , Antonio Flórez-Gutiérrez , Akiko Inoue , Ryoma Ito , Tetsu Iwata , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Nicky Mouha , Yusuke Naito , Ferdinand Sibleyras , and Yosuke Todo
    IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2023

2022

  1. IACR ToSC
    Distinguishing and key recovery attacks on the reduced-round SNOW-V and SNOW-Vi
    Jin Hoki , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Fukang Liu , and Kosei Sakamoto
    J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 2022
  2. IACR ToSC
    Cryptanalysis of Rocca and Feasibility of Its Security Claim
    Akinori Hosoyamada , Akiko Inoue , Ryoma Ito , Tetsu Iwata , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Ferdinand Sibleyras , and Yosuke Todo
    IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2022
  3. IACR ToSC
    New Cryptanalysis of ZUC-256 Initialization Using Modular Differences
    Fukang Liu , Willi Meier , Santanu Sarkar , Gaoli Wang , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol., 2022

2021

  1. IEEE Access
    Security Analysis of End-to-End Encryption for Zoom Meetings
    Takanori Isobe and Ryoma Ito
    IEEE Access, 2021
  2. IEICE Trans.
    New Iterated RC4 Key Correlations and their Application to Plaintext Recovery on WPA-TKIP
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., 2021
  3. JISA
    Bit-wise cryptanalysis on AND-RX permutation Friet-PC
    Ryoma Ito , Rentaro Shiba , Kosei Sakamoto , Fukang Liu , and Takanori Isobe
    J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 2021

2017

  1. IEICE Trans.
    Refined Construction of RC4 Key Setting in WPA
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., 2017

2016

  1. IEICE Trans.
    Refined Glimpse Correlations of RC4
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., 2016
  2. IEICE Trans.
    Refined RC4 Key Correlations of Internal States in WPA
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., 2016

02 / CONFERENCES

Peer-reviewed International Conference Papers

22 papers

2026

  1. ASIACRYPT
    Finding Collision for HMAC-SHA Forgery in the Secret-State Setting
    Tatsuya Ishikawa , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kosei Sakamoto , Kosuke Sasaki , Kazuma Taka , and Shion Utsumi
    In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2026 - 32th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (to appear), 2026
  2. CANS
    Accelerated Differential Search for Gleeok Using Hamming-Weight-Guided SAT Solving
    Kento Morita , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Takuro Shiraya , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    In International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2026 (to appear), 2026
  3. ISITA
    Refining the Evaluation of Diffusion Property for Simon Variants
    Kota Tatsumi , Hayato Watanabe , Ryoma Ito , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    In International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, ISITA 2026 (to appear), 2026
  4. ACISP
    Automated Tool for Finding Practical Collisions on SPN-Based Hash Functions
    Keita Toyama , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , Kazuma Taka , Kodai Taiyama , and Takanori Isobe
    In Information Security and Privacy - 31st Australasian Conference, ACISP 2026, Perth, WA, Australia, July 6-9, 2026, Proceedings, Part I, 2026 Acceptance rate: 26.5% (69/260)
  5. ACISP
    Analyzing Forgery Security of LeMac: Tight Bounds and Impact of Padding
    Taichi Nagoya , Takuro Shiraya , Kazuma Taka , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    In Information Security and Privacy - 31st Australasian Conference, ACISP 2026, Perth, WA, Australia, July 6-9, 2026, Proceedings, Part I, 2026 Acceptance rate: 26.5% (69/260)

2025

  1. ACSAC
    Gravity of the Situation: Security Analysis on Rocket.Chat E2EE
    Hayato Kimura , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , and Takanori Isobe
    In IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2025, Honolulu, HI, USA, December 8-12, 2025, 2025 Acceptance rate: 20.7% (84/406)
  2. EuroS&P
    Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr
    Hayato Kimura , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Shogo Shiraki , and Takanori Isobe
    In 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2025, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2025, 2025 Acceptance rate: 21.9% (60/273)
  3. ICISC
    Comprehensive Security Analysis of End-to-End Encryption in LINE
    Takehiro Matsumoto , Atsushi Tanaka , Kyosuke Yamashita , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    In Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2025 - 28th International Conference, Seoul, South Korea, November 19-21, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, 2025 Acceptance rate: 37.8% (28/74)

2024

  1. ASIACRYPT
    Key Collisions on AES and Its Applications
    Kodai Taiyama , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , Kazuma Taka , and Takanori Isobe
    In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2024 - 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Kolkata, India, December 9-13, 2024, Proceedings, Part VII, 2024 Acceptance rate: 29.2% (127/435)
  2. CSCML
    On the Effects of Neural Network-Based Output Prediction Attacks on the Design of Symmetric-Key Ciphers
    Hayato Watanabe , Ryoma Ito , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    In Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning - 8th International Symposium, CSCML 2024, Be’er Sheva, Israel, December 19-20, 2024, Proceedings, 2024 Acceptance rate: 37.2% (16/43)

2023

  1. SAC
    Parallel SAT Framework to Find Clustering of Differential Characteristics and Its Applications
    Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    In Selected Areas in Cryptography - SAC 2023 - 30th International Conference, Fredericton, Canada, August 14-18, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, 2023 Acceptance rate: 43.7% (21/48)

2022

  1. ACISP
    PNB-Focused Differential Cryptanalysis of ChaCha Stream Cipher
    Shotaro Miyashita , Ryoma Ito , and Atsuko Miyaji
    In Information Security and Privacy - 27th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2022, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, November 28-30, 2022, Proceedings, 2022 Acceptance rate: 40.3% (25/62)
  2. AIoTS
    Output Prediction Attacks on Block Ciphers Using Deep Learning
    Hayato Kimura , Keita Emura , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kazuto Ogawa , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    In Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2022 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S&P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA, Rome, Italy, June 20-23, 2022, Proceedings, 2022 Acceptance rate: 59.6% (31/52)
  3. ICEIS
    State-free End-to-End Encrypted Storage and Chat Systems based on Searchable Encryption
    Keita Emura , Ryoma Ito , Sachiko Kanamori , Ryo Nojima , and Yohei Watanabe
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2022, Online Streaming, April 25-27, 2022, Volume 2, 2022 Acceptance rate: 32.0% (63/197)

2021

  1. ACISP
    Distinguishing and Key Recovery Attacks on the Reduced-Round SNOW-V
    Jin Hoki , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Fukang Liu , and Kosei Sakamoto
    In Information Security and Privacy - 26th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2021, Virtual Event, December 1-3, 2021, Proceedings, 2021 Acceptance rate: 22.2% (35/157)
  2. ACISP
    Security Analysis of End-to-End Encryption for Zoom Meetings
    Takanori Isobe and Ryoma Ito
    In Information Security and Privacy - 26th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2021, Virtual Event, December 1-3, 2021, Proceedings, 2021 Acceptance rate: 22.2% (35/157)
  3. ESORICS
    Security Analysis of SFrame
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , and Kazuhiko Minematsu
    In Computer Security - ESORICS 2021 - 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4-8, 2021, Proceedings, Part II, 2021 Acceptance rate: 20.2% (71/351)

2020

  1. ISC
    Rotational Cryptanalysis of Salsa Core Function
    Ryoma Ito
    In Information Security - 23rd International Conference, ISC 2020, Bali, Indonesia, December 16-18, 2020, Proceedings, 2020 Acceptance rate: 26.4% (23/87)

2018

  1. ACISP
    New Iterated RC4 Key Correlations
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    In Information Security and Privacy - 23rd Australasian Conference, ACISP 2018, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 11-13, 2018, Proceedings, 2018 Acceptance rate: 30.1% (41/136)

2015

  1. ACISP
    How TKIP Induces Biases of Internal States of Generic RC4
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    In Information Security and Privacy - 20th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, June 29 - July 1, 2015, Proceedings, 2015 Acceptance rate: 25.0% (28/112)
  2. FSE
    New Linear Correlations Related to State Information of RC4 PRGA Using IV in WPA
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    In Fast Software Encryption - 22nd International Workshop, FSE 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, March 8-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 2015 Acceptance rate: 39.4% (28/71)

2014

  1. WISA
    New Integrated Long-Term Glimpse of RC4
    Ryoma Ito and Atsuko Miyaji
    In Information Security Applications - 15th International Workshop, WISA 2014, Jeju Island, Korea, August 25-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, 2014 Acceptance rate: 44.9% (31/69)

03 / PREPRINTS

Preprint Papers

15 papers

2026

  1. ePrint
    Dialga: A Family of Low-Latency Tweakable Block Ciphers using Multiple Linear Layers (Full Version)
    Subhadeep Banik , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Kazuma Nakata , Mostafizar Rahman , and Kosei Sakamoto
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2026

2025

  1. ePrint
    Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr
    Hayato Kimura , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Shogo Shiraki , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025
  2. ePrint
    Gravity of the Situation:Security Analysis on Rocket.Chat E2EE
    Hayato Kimura , Ryoma Ito , Kazuhiko Minematsu , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2025

2024

  1. ePrint
    On the Effects of Neural Network-based Output Prediction Attacks on the Design of Symmetric-key Ciphers
    Hayato Watanabe , Ryoma Ito , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024
  2. ePrint
    Key Collisions on AES and Its Applications
    Kodai Taiyama , Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , Kazuma Taka , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024

2023

  1. ePrint
    Areion: Highly-Efficient Permutations and Its Applications (Extended Version)
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Fukang Liu , Kazuhiko Minematsu , Motoki Nakahashi , Kosei Sakamoto , and Rentaro Shiba
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023
  2. ePrint
    Parallel SAT Framework to Find Clustering of Differential Characteristics and Its Applications
    Kosei Sakamoto , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

2021

  1. ePrint
    Bit-wise Cryptanalysis on AND-RX Permutation Friet-PC
    Ryoma Ito , Rentaro Shiba , Kosei Sakamoto , Fukang Liu , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  2. ePrint
    Output Prediction Attacks on SPN Block Ciphers using Deep Learning
    Hayato Kimura , Keita Emura , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Kazuto Ogawa , and Toshihiro Ohigashi
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  3. ePrint
    Security Analysis of SFrame
    Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , and Kazuhiko Minematsu
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  4. ePrint
    Security Analysis of End-to-End Encryption for Zoom Meetings
    Takanori Isobe and Ryoma Ito
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  5. ePrint
    Distinguishing and Key Recovery Attacks on the Reduced-Round SNOW-V
    Jin Hoki , Takanori Isobe , Ryoma Ito , Fukang Liu , and Kosei Sakamoto
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  6. ePrint
    State-free End-to-End Encrypted Storage and Chat Systems based on Searchable Encryption
    Keita Emura , Ryoma Ito , Sachiko Kanamori , Ryo Nojima , and Yohei Watanabe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  7. ePrint
    Finding Practical Distinguishers for ZUC-256 Using Modular Differences
    Fukang Liu , Willi Meier , Santanu Sarkar , Gaoli Wang , Ryoma Ito , and Takanori Isobe
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021
  8. ePrint
    PNB-based Differential Cryptanalysis of ChaCha Stream Cipher
    Shotaro Miyashita , Ryoma Ito , and Atsuko Miyaji
    IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021