Publications (Conferences and Jornals)

This is not a comprehensive list – only peer-reviewed, already-published works are included. IACR ePrint or arXiv links to PDFs are also provided when available.

• “A Practical Neighborhood Search Attack on Oracle MLWE” (H. Wang, M. F. Esgin, R. Steinfeld, M.-J. O. Saarinen, and S.-M. Yiu.) IACR Communications in Cryptology, vol. 3, no. 1, May 4, 2026.

• “mmCipher: Batching Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption Made Bandwidth-Optimal” (eprint). (H. Wang, R. Steinfeld, M.-J. O. Saarinen, M. F. Esgin, and S.-M. Yiu.) To appear: USENIX Security 2026, August 2026.

• “CRA and Cryptography: The Story Thus Far” (eprint) (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) SSR 2025, December 2025.

• “Poster: Marian: An Open Source RISC-V Processor with Zvk Vector Cryptography Extensions” (eprint) (T. Szymkowiak, E. Isufi, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.) ACM CCS 2024, October 2024.

• “Accelerating SLH-DSA by Two Orders of Magnitude with a Single Hash Unit” (eprint) (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) CRYPTO 2024, August 2024.

• “Threshold Raccoon: Practical Threshold Signatures from Standard Lattice Assumptions” (eprint) (R. del Pino, S. Katsumata, M. Maller, F. Mouhartem, T. Prest, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.) EUROCRYPT 2024, May 2024.

• “WrapQ: Side-Channel Secure Key Management for Post-Quantum Cryptography” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) PQCrypto 2023, August 2023.

• “Mask Compression: High-Order Masking on Memory-Constrained Devices” (eprint) (M.-J. O. Saarinen and M. Rossi.) SAC 2023, August 2023.

• “High-Order Masking of Lattice Signatures in Quasilinear Time” (R. del Pino, T. Prest, M. Rossi, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. IEEE S&P 2023. IEEE 2023.

• “WiP: Applicability of ISO Standard Side-Channel Leakage Tests to NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. HOST 2022. IEEE 2022.

• “SP 800–22 and GM/T 0005–2012 Tests: Clearly Obsolete, Possibly Harmful” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. EURO S&PW 2022. IEEE 2022.

• “Development of The RISC-V Entropy Source Interface” (free link). (M.-J. O. Saarinen, G. R. Newell, and B. Marshall.) J. Cryptographic Engineering. Springer 2022.

• “On Entropy and Bit Patterns of Ring Oscillator Jitter” (arXiv). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. AsianHOST 2021. IEEE 2021.

• “The design of scalar AES Instruction Set Extensions for RISC-V” (open). (B. Marshall, G. R. Newell, D. Page, M.-J. O. Saarinen, and C. Wolf.) CHES 2021 / TCHES 2021(1), 109-136. IACR 2021.

• “Building a Modern TRNG: An Entropy Source Interface for RISC-V” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen, G. R. Newell, and B. Marshall.) Proc. ASHES’21 2020. ACM 2020.

• “Mobile Energy Requirements of the Upcoming NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards” (arXiv). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. IEEE Mobile Cloud 2020. IEEE 2020.

• “Round5: Compact and Fast Post-Quantum Public-Key Encryption” (eprint). (H. Baan, S. Bhattacharya, S. R. Fluhrer, O. Garcia-Morchon, T. Laarhoven, R. Rietman, M.-J. O. Saarinen, L. Tolhuizen, and Z. Zhang.) Proc. PQCrypto 2019, LNCS 11505. Springer 2019.

• “Shorter Messages and Faster Post-Quantum Encryption with Round5 on Cortex M” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen, S. Bhattacharya, O. Garcia-Morchon, R. Rietman, L. Tolhuizen, and Z. Zhang.) Proc. CARDIS 2018, LNCS 11389, pp. 95-110. Springer 2019.

• “Arithmetic Coding and Blinding Countermeasures for Lattice Signatures” (free link). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp 71-84. Springer 2018.

• “HILA5: On Reliability, Reconciliation, and Error Correction for Ring-LWE Encryption” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. SAC 2017, LNCS 10719, pp. 192-212. Springer 2018.

• “Ring-LWE Ciphertext Compression and Error Correction: Tools for Lightweight Post-Quantum Cryptography”. (eprint) (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. IoTPTS ‘17, pp. 15-22. ACM 2017.

• “The BRUTUS Automatic Cryptanalytic Framework”. (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 75-82. Springer 2016.

• “The BLAKE2 Cryptographic Hash and Message Authentication Code (MAC)” (open). (M.-J. O. Saarinen and J.-P. Aumasson.) RFC 7693. IETF 2015.

• “WHIRLBOB, the Whirlpool based Variant of STRIBOB”. (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen and B. B. Brumley.) Proc. NordSec 2015, LNCS 9417, pp. 106-122. Springer 2015.

• “STRIBOB: Authenticated Encryption from GOST R 34.11-2012 LPS Permutation”. (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Mat. Vopr. Kriptogr., Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 67-78. Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS 2015.

• “Simple AEAD Hardware Interface (SÆHI) in a SoC: Implementing an On-Chip Keyak/WhirlBob Coprocessor” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. TrustED ‘14, pp. 51-56. ACM 2014.

• “CBEAM: Efficient Authenticated Encryption from Feebly One-Way Phi Functions” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. CT-RSA 2014. LNCS 8366, pp. 251-269. Springer 2014.

• “Beyond Modes: Building a Secure Record Protocol from a Cryptographic Sponge Permutation” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. CT-RSA 2014. LNCS 8366, pp. 270-285. Springer 2014.

• “Related-Key Attacks Against Full Hummingbird-2” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. FSE 2013. LNCS 8424, pp. 467-482. Springer 2013.

• “The BLUEJAY Ultra-Lightweight Hybrid Cryptosystem” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. TrustED 2012 (SPW 2012), pp. 27-32. IEEE Computer Society 2012.

• “Cycling Attacks on GCM, GHASH and Other Polynomial MACs and Hashes” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. FSE 2012. LNCS 7549, pp. 216-225. Springer 2012.

• “Practical Attack on 8 Rounds of the Lightweight Block Cipher KLEIN”. (J.-P. Aumasson, M. Naya-Plasencia, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. INDOCRYPT 2011. LNCS 7107, pp. 134-145. Springer 2011.

• “Cryptographic Analysis of All 4 x 4 - Bit S-Boxes” (eprint). (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. SAC 2011. LNCS 7118, pp. 118-133. Springer 2012.

• “The Hummingbird-2 Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Algorithm” (eprint). (D. Engels, M.-J. O. Saarinen, P. Schweitzer, and E. M. Smith.) Proc. RFIDSec 2011. LNCS 7055, pp. 19-31, Springer 2012.

• “Cryptanalysis of Hummingbird-1”. (M.-J. O. Saarinen.) Proc. FSE 2011. LNCS 6733, pp. 328-341, Springer 2011.