Taehun Kang

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at PQSnC Lab, School of Cybersecurity, Korea University. My research focuses on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Quantum Algorithms.

Research Interests

Education

• 2025.09 – Present

  Ph.D., Korea University
  School of Cybersecurity

• 2023.09 – 2025.08

  M.S., Korea University
  School of Cybersecurity

• 2018.03 – 2023.08

  B.S., Korea University
  Department of Mathematics

Publications

2026

• Applying Quantum Annealing to Block Cipher Cryptanalysis: An Experimental Study of Searching for Integral Distinguishers
  Insung Kim, Gilsang Ahn, Minjae Lee, Sunyeop Kim, Taehun Kang, Dongjae Lee, Seokhie Hong
  ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2026. (to appear)
• Manuscript (Under Review)
  Taehun Kang, Changmin Lee, Jeonghwan Lee
  Submitted to JAMC
• Efficient Constant-Time Implementation of terSIDH
  Taehun Kang, Donghoe Heo, Jeonghwan Lee, Suhri Kim, Changmin Lee
  IEEE Access, Vol. 14, 2026
• Manuscript (Blind Review)
  Taehun Kang, Changmin Lee, Yongha Son
  Submitted to CSF 2026
• Manuscript (Blind Review)
  Taehun Kang, Jiseung Kim, Changmin Lee
  Submitted to CRYPTO 2026

2025

• Comprehensive Analysis and Implementation of Isogeny-Based Hash Functions
  Donghoe Heo, Jeonghwan Lee, Taehun Kang, Suhri Kim, Seokhie Hong
  IEEE Access, Vol. 12

Patents

• None at the moment.

Awards

• Special Prize, Cryptocontest 2024 · Oct. 2024 · Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology (KIISC)
• Outstanding Paper Award, CISC-S'24 · Jun. 2024 · KIISC · (Paper: “Performance and Security Analysis of Isogeny Orderings in terSIDH”)
  President’s Award, Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)

Other Experience

Work / Internship

• To be updated.

Teaching / Service

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Talks

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