On The Distribution of Linear Biases: Three Instructive Examples
(2012) CRYPTO In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7417. p.50-67- Abstract
- Despite the fact that we evidently have very good block ciphers at hand today, some fundamental questions on their security are still unsolved. One such fundamental problem is to precisely assess the security of a given block cipher with respect to linear cryptanalysis. In by far most of the cases we have to make (clearly wrong) assumptions, e.g., assume independent round-keys. Besides being unsatisfactory from a scientific perspective, the lack of fundamental understanding might have an impact on the performance of the ciphers we use. As we do not understand the security sufficiently enough, we often tend to embed a security margin -- from an efficiency perspective nothing else than wasted performance. The aim of this paper is to... (More)
- Despite the fact that we evidently have very good block ciphers at hand today, some fundamental questions on their security are still unsolved. One such fundamental problem is to precisely assess the security of a given block cipher with respect to linear cryptanalysis. In by far most of the cases we have to make (clearly wrong) assumptions, e.g., assume independent round-keys. Besides being unsatisfactory from a scientific perspective, the lack of fundamental understanding might have an impact on the performance of the ciphers we use. As we do not understand the security sufficiently enough, we often tend to embed a security margin -- from an efficiency perspective nothing else than wasted performance. The aim of this paper is to stimulate research on these foundations of block ciphers. We do this by presenting three examples of ciphers that behave differently to what is normally assumed. Thus, on the one hand these examples serve as counter examples to common beliefs and on the other hand serve as a guideline for future work. (Less)
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- author
- Abdelraheem, Mohamed Ahmed ; Ågren, Martin LU ; Beelen, Peter and Leander, Gregor
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Invariant subspaces, Block ciphers, Linear hull, Linear cryptanalysis, Security margin
- host publication
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science : Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2012 32nd Annual Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 19-23, 2012. Proceedings - Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2012 32nd Annual Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 19-23, 2012. Proceedings
- series title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- volume
- 7417
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- CRYPTO
- conference dates
- 2012-08-19 - 2012-08-23
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84865477905
- ISSN
- 0302-9743
- 1611-3349
- ISBN
- 978-3-642-32009-5
- 978-3-642-32008-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-32009-5_4
- project
- EIT_HSWC:Coding Coding, modulation, security and their implementation
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 0faf56be-96c6-485d-9b96-fec65596204a (old id 2733961)
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