Scott Contini Silverbrook Research New South Wales Australia Email : scott_contini at yahoo.com (but anything that Yahoo flags as spam never makes it to my inbox. alternatively, you can try scottcontini-alt01@yahoo.com if you have trouble contacting me)

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Publications, etc...

• A Criticial Look at Hash Function Literature. Joint paper with R. Steinfeld, J. Pieprzyk, and K. Matusiewicz. Ecrypt hash function workshop 2007.
• Cryptanalysis of FORK-256. Joint paper with O. Billet, K. Matusiewicz, T. Peyrin, and J. Pieprzyk. FSE 2007.
• Forgery and Partial Key Recovery Attacks on HMAC and NMAC using Hash Collisions. Joint paper with Yiqun Lisa Yin. Asiacrypt 2006.
• VSH, an Efficient and Provable Collision Resistant Hash Function. Joint paper with Arjen K. Lenstra and Ron Steinfeld.
• On Stern's Attack Against Secret Truncated Linear Congruential Generators. Joint paper with Igor E. Shparlinski. ACISP'05.
• Complexity of Inverting the Euler Function. Joint Paper with Igor E. Shparlinski and Ernie Croot. To appear: Mathematics of Computation.
• Converse Results to the Wiener Attack on RSA. Joint paper with Ron Steinfeld, Huaxiong Wang and Josef Pieprzyk. PKC'05.
• Number Theory in Cryptography. To appear in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security.
• Fast Software-Based Attacks on SecurID (pdf, 180K). Joint paper with Yiqun Lisa Yin. Presented at FSE'04.
• The Security of the RC6 Block Cipher (zipped, postscript, 203K). Joint paper with Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, and Yiqun Lisa Yin.
• Improved Analysis of some Simplified RC6 Variants (postscript 174K). Joint paper with Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, and Yiqun Lisa Yin. Presented at FSE'99.
• On Differential Properties of Data Dependent Rotations and their use in Mars and RC6 (pdf, 198K). Joint paper with Yiqun Lisa Yin. Presented at the second AES conference.
• Factoring Integers with the Self Initializing Quadratic Sieve.

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