Paper 2009/201

Enhanced Cryptanalysis of Substitution Cipher Chaining mode (SCC-128)

Mohamed Abo El-Fotouh and Klaus Diepold

Abstract

In this paper, we present an enhanced cryptanalysis of the Substitution Cipher Chaining mode (SCC)~\cite{scc}. In~\cite{scc_attack}, SCC-128 (SCC which uses AES with 128-bit key) was broken using 5 attacks, where the authors used an active attack model (where the attacker can force the disk encryption application to re-encrypt a sector for her), the complexity of these attacks are at most 2$^{40}$ cipher executions. In this paper, we enhance the main attack on SCC-128, this enhancement decrease the complexity of SCC-128 attacks to be at most 2$^{14}$ cipher executions. We also cryptanalze SCC-128 in a less restrictive attack model, our attacks are upper bounded with 2$^{40}$ cipher executions.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
cryptanalysisSCC modedisk encryption
Contact author(s)
mohamed @ tum de
History
2009-05-20: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2009/201
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/201,
      author = {Mohamed Abo El-Fotouh and Klaus Diepold},
      title = {Enhanced Cryptanalysis of Substitution Cipher Chaining mode (SCC-128)},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2009/201},
      year = {2009},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/201}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/201}
}
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