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Cryptographic Implementations and Security

Cryptographic Implementations and Security is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the cryptanalysis of block ciphers and hash functions, including topics such as side-channel attacks, differential cryptanalysis, security analysis of hardware implementations, lightweight ciphers, fault attacks, and authenticated encryption.

  • Cryptanalysis
  • Block Ciphers
  • Hash Functions
  • Side-Channel Attacks
  • Differential Cryptanalysis
  • Security Analysis
  • Hardware Implementations
  • Lightweight Ciphers
  • Fault Attacks
  • Authenticated Encryption
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cryptographic Implementations and Security

Which countries lead Cryptographic Implementations and Security research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 849 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 849 works
  3. 3 United States 692 works
  4. 4 France 234 works
  5. 5 Japan 215 works
  6. 6 Germany 213 works
  7. 7 South Korea 142 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 110 works
  9. 9 Iraq 86 works
  10. 10 Italy 82 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 30.3%India: 22.6%United States: 18.4%France: 6.2%6 others listed: 22.5%30%largest
China1,138 · 30.3%India849 · 22.6%United States692 · 18.4%France234 · 6.2%6 others listed848 · 22.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cryptographic Implementations and Security research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cryptographic Implementations and Security research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and PLA Information Engineering University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 89 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 70 works
  3. 3 PLA Information Engineering UniversityChina 49 works
  4. 4 KU LeuvenBelgium 48 works
  5. 5 State Key Laboratory of CryptologyChina 40 works
  6. 6 University of FloridaUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 32 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  9. 9 Ruhr University BochumGermany 30 works
  10. 10 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cryptographic Implementations and Security?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cryptographic Implementations and Security include John P. A. Ioannidis, H. Vincent Poor and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  4. 4 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations
  5. 5 Jin Li China 132k citations
  6. 6 Claude Bouchard Canada 128k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Cryptographic Implementations and Security?

The most cited paper in Cryptographic Implementations and Security is "On the security of public key protocols" (Danny Dolev, A. C. Yao, 1983), with 5,851 citations. Next come "The Sybil Attack" (4,436) and "Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems" (4,361).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On the security of public key protocols Danny Dolev, A. C. Yao · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Mar 1983 5,851
2 The Sybil Attack John R. Douceur · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2002 4,436
3 Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems Paul C. Kocher · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1996 4,361
4 How To Prove Yourself: Practical Solutions to Identification and Signature Problems Amos Fiat, Adi Shamir · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 5 Apr 2007 3,943
5 What's new in Psychtoolbox-3? Mario Kleiner, D Brainard, D Pelli · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) Open access Aug 2007 3,760
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cryptographic Implementations and Security research done?

The largest centres of Cryptographic Implementations and Security research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Luxembourg, Bochum and Palaiseau.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 319 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 85 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 80 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 74 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 70 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 67 works
  7. 7 ZhengzhouChina 60 works
  8. 8 LeuvenBelgium 57 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 52 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LuxembourgLU · 21.5 works15×
  2. BochumDE · 36.6 works13×
  3. PalaiseauFR · 27.2 works12×
  4. LeuvenBE · 56.6 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cryptographic Implementations and Security than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cryptographic Implementations and Security?

Among universities, judged by research, KU Leuven, Radboud University Nijmegen and Quaid-i-Azam University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 12.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Quaid-i-Azam Univers…Radboud University N…Ruhr University BochumKU Leuven
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1KU LeuvenBelgium 72.311.3%11.0×48 +65.3%
2Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 62.313.1%9.1×25 +17.8%
3Quaid-i-Azam UniversityPakistan 58.731.5%7.8×8 -9.1%
4Ruhr University BochumGermany 58.613.0%15.7×30 -0.6%
5University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 57.59.1%19.5×21 +28.1%
6University of FloridaUnited States 56.28.8%6.7×33 +106.3%
7Graz University of TechnologyAustria 53.218.9%18.4×16 -0.5%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 51.411.7%7.7×28 -27.3%
9Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 51.27.8%13.1×32 +115.6%
10PLA Information Engineering UniversityChina 50.90.7%105.4×50 +141.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cryptographic Implementations and Security, country by country

Is Cryptographic Implementations and Security research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cryptographic Implementations and Security.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cryptographic Implementations and Security as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Cryptographic Implementations and Security0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cryptographic Implementations and Security over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Cryptographic Implementations and Security9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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