### Characterizations of the Degraded Boolean Function and Cryptanalysis of the SAFER Family

wentan Yi and Shaozhen Chen

##### Abstract

This paper investigates the degradation properties of Boolean functions from the aspects of the distributions of dierences and linear masks, and shows two characterizations of the degraded Boolean function. One is that there exists a linear space of the input dierences, where the dierentials with the zero output dierence have probability 1; Another one is that the input linear masks of the nonzero-correlation linear approximations are included in a linear space. Those two linear spaces are orthogonal spaces. Moreover, the degradation properties are showed about the exponentiation type S-box of the SAFER block ciphers, which are applied to reduce the compute complexity in the zero-correlation linear attacks on 5-round SAFER SK/128, 4(5)-round SAFER+/128(256) and 5(6)-round SAFER++/128(256). In the attacks, some of the linear properties of PHT employed as the linear layer by the SAFER block ciphers are investigated and some zero-correlation approximations for SAFER SK, SAFER+, and SAFER++ are identied, when only the least one or two signicant bits are considered. The results show that more rounds of some of the SAFER block ciphers can be attacked, by considering the degradation properties and the zero-correlation linear relations.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
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Preprint.
Keywords
CryptographyBlock cipherDegradation propertyZero- correlation linear cryptanalysisSAFER
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nlwt8988 @ gmail com
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https://ia.cr/2016/036

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/036,
author = {wentan Yi and Shaozhen Chen},
title = {Characterizations of the Degraded Boolean Function and Cryptanalysis of the SAFER Family},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/036},
year = {2016},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/036}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/036}
}

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