Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen

RESEARCH AFFILIATE

Ph.D. Cryptography, Royal Holloway, University of London (October 2009)
M.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Jyväskylä (1999/2005).

I'm a researcher affiliated with Kaisa Nyberg's Cryptography Group. I work mostly on cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptographic primitives.

Right now I'm especially interested in the SHA-3 Competition. See the TU Graz SHA-3 Zoo for status information.

Contact

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen
Information Security Group
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
UNITED KINGDOM

e-mail reaches me at: mjos ät iki döt fi
tel: +44 7536 841585

Selected Publications Online

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Project TWOVAULT - Secure and Selectively Deniable Data Storage. Proc. ISCTURKEY 2008, Dec 25-27, 2008, Ankara, Turkey. Information Association of Turkey, 2008.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Linearization Attacks Against Syndrome Based Hashes. Proc. Indocrypt 2007, LNCS 4859, Springer-Verlag 2007. pp. 1-9.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, A Meet-in-the-Middle Collision Attack Against the New Fork-256. Proc. Indocrypt 2007, LNCS 4859, Springer-Verlag 2007. pp. 10-17.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Security of VSH in the Real World. Proc. Indocrypt 2006, LNCS 4329, Springer-Verlag 2006, pp. 95-103.

K. Bentahar, D. Page, J.H. Silverman, M.-J. O. Saarinen, and N.P. Smart, LASH. Second NIST Cryptographic Hash Function Workshop, August 24-25 2006, Santa Barbara, US.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Chosen-IV Statistical Attacks Against eSTREAM Ciphers. Proc. SECRYPT 2006, International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Setubal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006. (An earlier version appeared as: M.-J. O. Saarinen: "d-Monomial Tests are Effective Against Stream Ciphers", State of the Art in Stream Ciphers (SASC) 2006 Workshop Record. Leuven, Belgium, February 2-3, 2006.)

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Encrypted Watermarks and Linux Laptop Security. Proc. WISA2004, LNCS 3325, Springer-Verlag 2004. pp. 30-41.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers Based on SHA-1 and MD5. Proc. FSE 2003, LNCS 2887, Springer-Verlag 2003, pp. 36-44.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, A Time-Memory Tradeoff Attack Against LILI-128. Proc. FSE 2002. LNCS 2365, Springer-Verlag 2002, pp. 231-236.

M.-J. O. Saarinen, Attacks against the WAP WTLS protocol. Proc. CMS 1999. IFIP Conference Proceedings 152, Kluwer 1999, pp. 209-215.

M.-J.O. Saarinen, A Note Regarding the Hash Function Use of MARS and RC6. Official AES first round comment for NIST, April 14, 1999. (An earlier version had the title "Equivalent keys in MARS.")

Updated: 30 Oct 09