Hongjun Wu

Hongjun Wu is an Asian cryptographer . He is an assistant professor at Nanyang University of Technology and has developed numerous algorithms in the field of symmetric cryptography .

Life

Wu studied at the National University of Singapore from 1994 to 2000 and received his PhD from 2005 to 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven . He has been working at Nanyang Technical University since 2010. Wu developed several cryptographic algorithms that successfully participated in selection processes:

• In 2004 Wu developed the stream cipher HC-256 . A variant HC-128 was selected in 2008 in the eSTREAM process as one of four algorithms in the software area.
• In 2010 the hash function JH became one of five finalists in the SHA-3 selection process.
• In 2014, the password hashing method Pomelo was one of seven finalists in the Password Hashing Competition .
• In 2015, a total of four algorithms for authenticated encryption, in which Wu participated or which he had developed alone, entered the second round of the CAESAR competition : ACORN, AEGIS, AES-JAMBU, MORUS. None of the proposals submitted by Wu were therefore eliminated.

Web links

• Homepage of Hongjun Wu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hongjun Wu: A New Stream Cipher HC-256 (pdf)
2. ↑ The eSTREAM Portfolio (PDF, 118 kB).
3. ↑ NIST : Round 3 .
4. ↑ Password Hashing Competition: PHC status report  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
5. ↑ Website Cryptographic competitions: CAESAR submissions .