Cryptanalysis of the MEM Mode of Operation

Peng Wang; Dengguo Feng; Wenling Wu

Paper 2006/094

Cryptanalysis of the MEM Mode of Operation

Peng Wang, Dengguo Feng, and Wenling Wu

Abstract

The MEM mode is a nonce-based enciphering mode of operation proposed by Chakraborty and Sarkar, which was claimed to be secure against symmetric nonce respecting adversaries. We show that this is not correct by using two very simple attcks. One attack need one decryption and one decryption queries, and the other only need one encryption query.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF PS
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s): wp @ is ac cn
History: 2006-03-09: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2006/094
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/094,
      author = {Peng Wang and Dengguo Feng and Wenling Wu},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of the {MEM} Mode of Operation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/094},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/094}
}