School of Cryptology
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China 100049
Email: hailun.yan@ucas.ac.cn
I entered Shandong University in 2010 with a major in Mathematics. I received my B.Sc. in Information Security in 2014. I subsequently became a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working in the Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab under supervision of Prof. Xuejia Lai. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology in 2019.
I worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) of EPFL.
My research interest is in cryptography. I'm working on the cryptanalysis and design of symmetric-key cryptography.
MPC/FHE/ZK-friendly symmetric-key Ciphers
Hash functions for post-quantum digital signatures
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Baofeng Wu, Wen Kong, Dewei Kong and Hailun Yan. MDS Diffusion Layers for Arithmetization-Oriented Symmetric Ciphers: The Rotational-Add Construction. ToSC 2025 Issue 3, FSE 2026
Subhadeep Banik, Hailun Yan*. Cryptanalysis of Fruit-F: Exploiting Key-Derivation Weaknesses and Initialization Vulnerabilities. ACISP 2025
Fukang Liu, Katharina Koschatko, Lorenzo Grassi, Hailun Yan, Shiyao Chen, Subhadeep Banik, and Willi Meier. Opening the Blackbox: Collision Attacks on Round-Reduced Tip5, Tip4, Tip4' and Monolith. ToSC 2024 Issue 4, FSE 2025
Lingyue Qing, Jialiang Hua, Xiaoyang Dong, Hailun Yan, Xiaoyun Wang. "Meet-in-the-middle preimage attacks on sponge-based hashing." EUROCRYPT 2023
Wenxiao Qiao, Hailun Yan*, Siwei Sun, Lei Hu, Jiwu Jing. "New cryptanalysis of LowMC with algebraic techniques." Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2023
Hailun Yan, Serge Vaudenay, Daniel Collins, Andrea Caforio. "Optimal Symmetric Ratcheting for Secure Communication." The Computer Journal, 2023
Subhadeep Banik, Khashayar Barooti, Serge Vaudenay, Hailun Yan. "New Attacks on LowMC instances with Single Plaintext/Ciphertext pair." ASIACRYPT 2021
Hailun Yan, Lei Wang, Yaobin Shen, Xuejia Lai. "Tweaking Key-Alternating Feistel Block Ciphers." ACNS 2020
Hailun Yan, Serge Vaudenay. "Symmetric Asynchronous Ratcheted Communication with Associated Data." IWSEC 2020
Hailun Yan, Yiyuan Luo, Mo Chen, Xuejia Lai. "New Observation on the Key Schedule of RECTANGLE." SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2019
Hailun Yan, Xuejia Lai, Lei Wang, Yu Yu, Yiran Xing. "New Zero-Sum Distinguishers on Full 24-Round KECCAK-f Using Division Property." IET Information Security, 2019
中国密码学会青工委委员
Inscrypt 2025 PC
ICICS 2025 PC
ACISP 2025 PC
ACISP 2021 PC