Haruka "ykm11" Hirata

Doctoral student; ykm is pronounced [juːkemu].

Cryptographic Hardware Security · Side-Channel & Fault Analysis · Efficient Implementations, [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [ORCID]

Profile

• Portrait
  at CHES 2024 (Halifax, Canada)
  

Publications

• Toward Cost-Effective Combined Countermeasures: Multiplicative Masked M&M IEICE
  To appear
  Kaiyuan Li, Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yuko Hara, Yang Li
  IEICE Trans. Cryptography and Information Security, Vol.E109-A, No.3, pp.XXX–YYY. [JSTAGE]
• Practical Randomness Effects on Physical Security in Second-Order Threshold Implementation of AES IEICE
  2025-03
  Maki Tsukahara, Yusaku Harada, Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Yang Li, Yuko Hara-Azumi, Kazuo Sakiyama
  IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., Vol.E108-A, No.3, pp.XXX–YYY. [PDF]
• All You Need Is Fault: Zero-Value Attacks on AES and a New λ-Detection M&M TCHES
  2023-12
  Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Victor Arribas, Yang Li, Noriyuki Miura, Svetla Nikova, Kazuo Sakiyama
  IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2024, no. 1, pp.133–156. [TCHES] [Slides]
• Evaluation of Side-Channel Attack Resistance on LFI Detection Circuits IEICE
  2021-05
  Ryota Hatano, Haruka Hirata, Kohei Matsuda, Noriyuki Miura, Yang Li, Kazuo Sakiyama
  IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., pp.118–126. [IEICE]

Conference Proceedings

• Let's Share a Secret: Share-Reduced Design of M&M for the AES S-box AIHWS
  To appear
  Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Yuko Hara, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yang Li
  AIHWS Workshop 2025 (co-located with ACNS), Munich, Germany, [To Appear]
• Multiplicative Masked M&M: An Attempt at Combined Countermeasures with Reduced Randomness TrustCom
  2024-12
  Kaiyuan Li, Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Yuko Hara, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yang Li
  IEEE TrustCom 2024, Sanya, China, pp.726–733. doi:10.1109/TrustCom63139.2024.00112 [IEEE Xplore]
• Yet Another Physical Leakage Assessment with the Wasserstein Distance AsianHOST
  2024-12
  Haruka Hirata, Yusaku Harada, Yuko Hara, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yang Li
  AsianHOST 2024, Kobe, Japan, pp.1–6. doi:10.1109/AsianHOST63913.2024.10838480 [IEEE Xplore]
• On the Practical Dependency of Fresh Randomness in AES S-box with Second-Order TI CANDARW
  2023-11
  Maki Tsukahara, Haruka Hirata, Mingyu Yang, Daiki Miyahara, Yang Li, Yuko Hara-Azumi, Kazuo Sakiyama
  CANDAR Workshops 2023 (CANDARW’23), Matsue, Japan, pp.286–291. [IEEE Xplore]

Poster Sessions

• PSYLOCKE: Provably Secure Logic Locking with Practical Efficiency Reviewed
  2025-08
  Yohei Watanabe, Kyoichi Asano, Haruka Hirata, Tomoki Ono, Mingyu Yang, Mitsugu Iwamoto, Yang Li, Yuko Hara
  USENIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM poster session.
• Towards Efficient Logic Locking with Provable Security Reviewed
  2024-09
  Tomoki Ono, Haruka Hirata, Kyoichi Asano, Mingyu Yang, Yohei Watanabe, Yuko Hara, Mitsugu Iwamoto
  IWSEC'24 poster.
• Glitch-Based Key Recovery Using Entropy of Input Difference for the Canright S-box Non-reviewed
  2022-11
  Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Yang Li, Kazuo Sakiyama
  CARDIS 2022 Fall School.

Invited Talks

• All You Need Is Fault: Zero-Value Attacks on AES and a New λ-Detection M&M (from TCHES 2024)
  2024-05-15
  Haruka Hirata
  Workshop on ISEC (Tokyo, Japan).

ePrint

• PSYLOCKE: Provably Secure Logic Locking with Practical Efficiency
  2025
  Yohei Watanabe, Kyoichi Asano, Haruka Hirata, Tomoki Ono, Mingyu Yang, Mitsugu Iwamoto, Yang Li, Yuko Hara
  IACR ePrint 2025/938
• All You Need Is Fault: Zero-Value Attacks on AES and a New λ-Detection M&M
  2023
  Haruka Hirata, Daiki Miyahara, Victor Arribas, Yang Li, Noriyuki Miura, Svetla Nikova, Kazuo Sakiyama
  IACR ePrint 2023/1129

Domestic publications (including peer-reviewed and non-reviewed) are here.

Awards

• CANDAR 2023 Best Paper Award
  2023-11

Grants

• JSPS Fellows Grant
  2025-04 – 2027-03
• JST SPRING Program
  Declined

Education

• Ph.D. candidate, UEC Tokyo
  2023 – current
  The University of Electro-Communications
• M.E., UEC Tokyo
  2023-03
• B.E., UEC Tokyo
  2021-03
• A.D., NIT Anan College
  2019-03

Interests

• Cryptographic Hardware Security
  Focus
  • Side-channel Analysis
  • Fault Analysis
• Fast Encryption/Computation
  Project
  Example: ECC with GNU MP

Software

• SILVER helper for Yosys
  Tool
• Wasserstein leakage assessment
  Tool (private repo)

Other Activities

• Visitor, KU Leuven
  2024-07; 2022-09 – 2022-10

Professional Services

• Session chair at ACNS 2025
  2025.06.24

Contact

• E-mail
  h.haruka [at] uec.ac.jp

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