Curriculum Vitae

Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and automated security analysis at Ruhr University Bochum.

Education

• 2025--Present

  Postdoc in Computer Science

  Ruhr University Bochum

  Bochum, Germany

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• 2021--2024

  Ph.D. in Computer Science

  Graz University of Technology

  Graz, Austria

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• 2014--2016

  Master of Pure Mathematics

  University of Tehran

  Tehran, Iran

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• 2012--2016

  Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

  K. N. Toosi University of Technology

  Tehran, Iran

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• 2010--2014

  Bachelor of Applied Mathematics

  K. N. Toosi University of Technology

  Tehran, Iran

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Experiences

• 2024--Present

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Conducting research on symmetric-key cryptanalysis under the supervision of Prof. Gregor Leander in the Symmetric Cryptography Group (More info: https://informatik.rub.de/symcrypt/).

  Ruhr University Bochum

  Bochum, Germany

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• 2022--2024

  Ph.D. Candidate

  Conducted research on symmetric-key cryptanalysis under the supervision of Dr. Maria Eichlseder. Institute profile (More info: https://www.isec.tugraz.at/people/?groupby=alumni).

  Graz University of Technology

  Graz, Austria

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• 2021--2022

  Ph.D. Student

  Conducted research on symmetric-key cryptanalysis under the supervision of Dr. Maria Eichlseder in the Cryptography Research Area (More info: https://www.iaik.tugraz.at/research-area/crypto/).

  Graz University of Technology

  Graz, Austria

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Skills

Teaching Experience

Presentations & Visits

Academic Reviews

Honors & Awards

Conference & Workshop Attendance

Professional Memberships

Personal Interests

Languages

Publications

• Improved Rectangle Attacks on SKINNY and CRAFT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Nasour Bagheri, Ling Song 0001

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2021

• Cryptanalysis of QARMAv2.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Yosuke Todo

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2024

• Revisiting Differential-Linear Attacks via a Boomerang Perspective with Application to AES, Ascon, CLEFIA, SKINNY, PRESENT, KNOT, TWINE, WARP, LBlock, Simeck, and SERPENT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Patrick Derbez, Maria Eichlseder

  CRYPTO • 2024

• Finding the Impossible: Automated Search for Full Impossible-Differential, Zero-Correlation, and Integral Attacks.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Sadegh Sadeghi, Maria Eichlseder

  EUROCRYPT • 2023

• Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32.

  Authors: Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He 0002, Kai Hu 0001, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2026

• Mix-Basis Geometric Approach to Boomerang Distinguishers.

  Authors: Chengcheng Chang, Hosein Hadipour, Kai Hu 0001, Muzhou Li, Meiqin Wang

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2025

• Cryptanalysis: Theory Versus Practice Correcting Cryptanalysis Results on Ascon, ChaCha, and Serpent Using GPUs.

  Authors: Cihangir Tezcan, Gregor Leander, Hosein Hadipour

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2025

• Finding Complete Impossible Differential Attacks on AndRX Ciphers and Efficient Distinguishers for ARX Designs.

  Authors: Debasmita Chakraborty, Hosein Hadipour, Phuong Hoa Nguyen, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2024

• Improved Search for Integral, Impossible Differential and Zero-Correlation Attacks Application to Ascon, ForkSKINNY, SKINNY, MANTIS, PRESENT and QARMAv2.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Simon Gerhalter, Sadegh Sadeghi, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2024

• Practical Multiple Persistent Faults Analysis.

  Authors: Hadi Soleimany, Nasour Bagheri, Hosein Hadipour, Prasanna Ravi, Shivam Bhasin, Sara Mansouri

  IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. • 2022

• Integral Cryptanalysis of WARP based on Monomial Prediction.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2022

• Throwing Boomerangs into Feistel Structures Application to CLEFIA, WARP, LBlock, LBlock-s and TWINE.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Marcel Nageler, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2022

• Comprehensive security analysis of CRAFT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Sadegh Sadeghi, Majid M. Niknam, Ling Song 0001, Nasour Bagheri

  IACR Trans. Symmetric Cryptol. • 2019

• Autoguess: A Tool for Finding Guess-and-Determine Attacks and Key Bridges.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Maria Eichlseder

  ACNS • 2022

• Breaking the Twinkle Authenticated Encryption Scheme and Analyzing Its Underlying Permutation.

  Authors: Debasmita Chakraborty, Hosein Hadipour, Anup Kumar Kundu, Mostafizar Rahman, Prathamesh Ram, Yu Sasaki 0001, Dilip Sau, Aman Sinha

  SAC • 2025

• Finding the Impossible: Automated Search for Full Impossible Differential, Zero-Correlation, and Integral Attacks.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Sadegh Sadeghi, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2022

• Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32.

  Authors: Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He 0002, Kai Hu 0001, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2026

• Breaking the Twinkle Authenticated Encryption Scheme and Analyzing Its Underlying Permutation.

  Authors: Debasmita Chakraborty, Hosein Hadipour, Anup Kumar Kundu, Mostafizar Rahman, Prathamesh Ram, Yu Sasaki 0001, Dilip Sau, Aman Sinha

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2025

• Turning Multiple Key-Dependent Attacks into Universal Attacks.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Yosuke Todo, Mostafizar Rahman, Maria Eichlseder, Ravi Anand, Takanori Isobe 0001

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2025

• Improved Integral Attack on ChiLow-32 Exploiting the Inverse of the ChiChi Function.

  Authors: Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2025

• Finding Complete Impossible Differential Attacks on AndRX Ciphers and Efficient Distinguishers for ARX Designs.

  Authors: Debasmita Chakraborty, Hosein Hadipour, Phuong Hoa Nguyen, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2024

• Revisiting Differential-Linear Attacks via a Boomerang Perspective with Application to AES, Ascon, CLEFIA, SKINNY, PRESENT, KNOT, TWINE, WARP, LBlock, Simeck, and SERPENT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Patrick Derbez, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2024

• Improved Search for Integral, Impossible-Differential and Zero-Correlation Attacks: Application to Ascon, ForkSKINNY, SKINNY, MANTIS, PRESENT and QARMAv2.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Simon Gerhalter, Sadegh Sadeghi, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2023

• Cryptanalysis of QARMAv2.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Yosuke Todo

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2023

• Integral Cryptanalysis of WARP based on Monomial Prediction.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2022

• Throwing Boomerangs into Feistel Structures: Application to CLEFIA, WARP, LBlock, LBlock-s and TWINE.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Marcel Nageler, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2022

• Autoguess: A Tool for Finding Guess-and-Determine Attacks and Key Bridges.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Maria Eichlseder

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2021

• Practical Multiple Persistent Faults Analysis.

  Authors: Hadi Soleimany, Nasour Bagheri, Hosein Hadipour, Prasanna Ravi, Shivam Bhasin, Sara Mansouri

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2021

• Improved Rectangle Attacks on SKINNY and CRAFT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Nasour Bagheri, Ling Song 0001

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2020

• Comprehensive security analysis of CRAFT.

  Authors: Hosein Hadipour, Sadegh Sadeghi, Majid M. Niknam, Nasour Bagheri

  IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. • 2019