Paper 2015/908

Linear Distinguishers in the Key-less Setting: Application to PRESENT

Martin M. Lauridsen and Christian Rechberger

Abstract

The application of the concept of linear cryptanalysis to the domain of key-less primitives is largely an open problem. In this paper we, for the first time, propose a model in which its application is meaningful for distinguishing block ciphers. Combining our model with ideas from message modification and rebound-like approaches, we initiate a study of cryptographic primitives with respect to this new attack vector and choose the lightweight block cipher PRESENT as an example target. This leads to known-key distinguishers over up to 27 rounds, whereas the best previous result is up to 18 rounds in the chosen-key model.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in FSE 2015
Keywords
hash functionblock cipherlinear cryptanalysisdistinguisherPRESENT
Contact author(s)
mmeh @ dtu dk
History
2015-09-17: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/908
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/908,
      author = {Martin M.  Lauridsen and Christian Rechberger},
      title = {Linear Distinguishers in the Key-less Setting: Application to PRESENT},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/908},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/908}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/908}
}
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