Paper 2018/1219

Cryptanalysis of the Full DES and the Full 3DES Using a New Linear Property

Tomer Ashur and Raluca Posteuca

Abstract

In this paper we extend the work presented by Ashur and Posteuca in BalkanCryptSec 2018, by designing 0-correlation key-dependent linear trails covering more than one round of DES. First, we design a 2-round 0-correlation key-dependent linear trail which we then connect to Matsui's original trail in order to obtain a linear approximation covering the full DES and 3DES. We show how this approximation can be used for a key recovery attack against both ciphers. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to use this kind of property to attack a symmetric-key algorithm, and our linear attack against 3DES is the first statistical attack against this cipher.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
linear cryptanalysisDES3DESpoisonous hull
Contact author(s)
raluca posteuca @ esat kuleuven be
History
2018-12-30: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2018/1219
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/1219,
      author = {Tomer Ashur and Raluca Posteuca},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of the Full DES and the Full 3DES Using a New Linear Property},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2018/1219},
      year = {2018},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1219}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1219}
}
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