Education & Experience

2023-now         Associate professor at Xiamen University

2021-2023 Postdoc at UCL Crypto Group 

2016-2021 Ph.D. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2019-2020 Visiting student at Florida State University 

2012-2016 B.Sc. at Shandong University

Publications

•  On Constructing AEs with Leakage and Faults

Thomas Peters, Sayandeep Saha, Yaobin Shen, and François-Xavier Standaert

FSE 2026

• Proxying Is Enough: Security of Proxying in TLS Oracles and AEAD Context Unforgeability

Zhongtang Luo, Yanxue Jia, Yaobin Shen, and Aniket Kate

AFT 2025

• Multiplex: TBC-based Authenticated Encryption with Sponge-Like Rate 

Thomas Peters, Yaobin Shen, and François-Xavier Standaert

FSE 2025

• Multi-User Security of CCM Authenticated Encryption Mode

Xiangyang Zhang, Yaobin Shen, and Lei Wang

CCS 2024

• Efficient Variants of TNT with BBB Security

Ritam Bhaumik, Wonseok Choi, Avijit Dutta, Cuauhtemoc Mancillas López, Hrithik Nandi, and Yaobin Shen

ProvSec 2024

• The Committing Security of MACs with Applications to Generic Composition

Ritam Bhaumik, Bishwajit Chakraborty, Wonseok Choi, Avijit Dutta, Jérôme Govinden, and Yaobin Shen

CRYPTO 2024

• Optimally Secure Tweakable Block Ciphers with a Large Tweak from n-bit Block Ciphers 

Yaobin Shen and François-Xavier Standaert

FSE 2024

• Forgery Attacks on Several Beyond-Birthday-Bound Secure MACs

Yaobin Shen, François-Xavier Standaert, and Lei Wang

ASIACRYPT 2023

• Revisiting the Indifferentiability of the Sum of Permutations 

Aldo Gunsing, Ritam Bhaumik, Ashwin Jha, Bart Mennink, and Yaobin Shen

CRYPTO 2023

• Secure Message Authentication in the Presence of Leakage and Faults

Francesco Berti, Chun Guo, Thomas Peters, Yaobin Shen, and François-Xavier Standaert

FSE 2023

• Key-Reduced Variants of 3kf9 with Beyond-Birthday-Bound Security

Yaobin Shen and Ferdinand Sibleyras

ASIACRYPT 2022

• Triplex: an Efficient and One-Pass Leakage-Resistant Mode of Operation

Yaobin Shen, Thomas Peters, François-Xavier Standaert, Gaëtan Cassiers, and Corentin Verhamme

CHES 2022

• Revisiting the Security of DbHtS MACs: Beyond-Birthday-Bound in the Multi-User Setting  

Yaobin Shen, Lei Wang, Dawu Gu, and Jian Weng

CRYPTO 2021

• Security of Streaming Encryption in Google's Tink Library

Viet Tung Hoang and Yaobin Shen

CCS 2020

• Security Analysis of NIST CTR-DRBG 

Viet Tung Hoang and Yaobin Shen

CRYPTO 2020

• On Beyond-Birthday-Bound Security: Revisiting the Development of ISO/IEC 9797-1 MACs 

Yaobin Shen and Lei Wang

FSE 2020 (- Best Paper Award -)

• Improved Security Bounds for Generalized Feistel Networks 

Yaobin Shen, Chun Guo, and Lei Wang

FSE 2020

• Secure Key-Alternating Feistel Ciphers Without Key Schedule 

Yaobin Shen, Hailun Yan, Lei Wang, and Xuejia Lai

SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, October 2020

• Tweaking Key-Alternating Feistel Block Ciphers 

Hailun Yan, Lei Wang, Yaobin Shen, and Xuejia Lai

ACNS 2020

• Beyond-birthday Secure Domain-preserving PRFs from a Single Permutation 

Chun Guo, Yaobin Shen, Lei Wang, and Dawu Gu

Designs, Codes and Cryptography (2019)

• Length-Preserving Encryption Based on Single-Key Tweakable Block Cipher 

Xiangyang Zhang, Yaobin Shen, Hailun Yan, Ying Zou, Ming Wan, Zheyi Wu, and Lei Wang

ProvSec 2018

Service

• Program committee of ASIACRYPT 2023/2024, CRYPTO 2024/2025, FSE 2025/ToSC 2024/2025, Inscrypt 2024/2025; Editorial board of CiC 2025

• General & Program Chairs of ASK 2023 (The 10th Asian Workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography)

• Reviewer for CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, Journal of Cryptography, etc.

Preprints

• Security Analysis of NIST Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions

Yaobin Shen, Lei Wang and Dawu Gu

ePrint 2025/815