Paper 2010/176
A Comparison of Cryptanalytic Tradeoff Algorithms
Jin Hong and Sunghwan Moon
Abstract
Three time memory tradeoff algorithms are compared in this paper. Specifically, the classical tradeoff algorithm by Hellman, the distinguished point tradeoff method, and the rainbow table method, in their non-perfect table versions, are treated. We show that, under parameters and assumptions that are typically considered in theoretic discussions of the tradeoff algorithms, Hellman and distinguished point tradeoffs perform very close to each other and that the rainbow table method performs somewhat better than the other two algorithms. Our method of comparison can easily be applied to other situations, where the conclusions could be different. The analysis of tradeoff efficiency presented in this paper does not ignore the effects of false alarms and also covers techniques for reducing storage, such as ending point truncations and index tables. Our comparison of algorithms takes the success probabilities and pre-computation efforts fully into account.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- A minor revision of an IACR publication in JOC 2013
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00145-012-9128-3
- Keywords
- time memory tradeoffHellmandistinguished pointrainbow tablerandom function
- Contact author(s)
- jinhong @ snu ac kr
- History
- 2013-09-27: last of 5 revisions
- 2010-04-04: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2010/176
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/176,
author = {Jin Hong and Sunghwan Moon},
title = {A Comparison of Cryptanalytic Tradeoff Algorithms},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/176},
year = {2010},
doi = {10.1007/s00145-012-9128-3},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/176}
}
