Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/078

Multiple Bytes Differential Fault Analysis on CLEFIA

Xin-jie ZHAO and Tao WANG and Jing-zhe GAO

Abstract: This paper examines the strength of CLEFIA against multiple bytes differential fault attack. Firstly, it presents the principle of CLEFIA algorithm and differential fault analysis; then, according to injecting faults into the rth,r-1th,r-2th CLEFIA round three conditions, proposes three fault models and corresponding analysis methods; finally, all of the fault model and analysis methods above have been verified through software simulation. Experiment results demonstrate that: CLEFIA is vulnerable to differential fault attack due to its Feistel structure and S-box feature, 5-6,6-8,2 faults are needed to recover CLEFIA-128 based on the three fault models in this paper respectively, multiple byte faults model can greatly improve the attack practicality and even the attack efficiency, and the fault analysis methods in this paper can provide some fault analysis ideas on other block ciphers using S-box.

Category / Keywords: Multiple byte faults;Differential fault analysis;CLEFIA; Feistel Structure;Block cipher

Date: received 11 Feb 2010, last revised 19 Feb 2010

Contact author: zhaoxinjieem at 163 com

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Version: 20100220:040512 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2010/078

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