Paper 2016/743
Investigating Cube Attacks on the Authenticated Encryption Stream Cipher ACORN
Md Iftekhar Salam, Harry Bartlett, Ed Dawson, Josef Pieprzyk, Leonie Simpson, and Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong
Abstract
The cube attack is an algebraic attack that allows an adversary to extract low degree polynomial equations from the targeted cryptographic primitive. This work applies the cube attack to a reduced round version of ACORN, a candidate cipher design in the CAESAR cryptographic competition. The cube attack on 477 initialization rounds of ACORN can recover the 128 bit key with a total attack complexity of about
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- CAESARAuthenticated EncryptionCube AttackACORNAEADConfidentiality
- Contact author(s)
- m salam @ qut edu au
- History
- 2016-08-02: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2016/743
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/743, author = {Md Iftekhar Salam and Harry Bartlett and Ed Dawson and Josef Pieprzyk and Leonie Simpson and Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong}, title = {Investigating Cube Attacks on the Authenticated Encryption Stream Cipher {ACORN}}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/743}, year = {2016}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/743} }