Paper 2020/1242

Improved (Related-key) Differential Cryptanalysis on GIFT

Fulei Ji, Wentao Zhang, Chunning Zhou, and Tianyou Ding

Abstract

In this paper, we reevaluate the security of GIFT against differential cryptanalysis under both single-key scenario and related-key scenario. Firstly, we apply Matsui's algorithm to search related-key differential trails of GIFT. We add three constraints to limit the search space and search the optimal related-key differential trails on the limited search space. We obtain related-key differential trails of GIFT-64/128 for up to 15/14 rounds, which are the best results on related-key differential trails of GIFT so far. Secondly, we propose an automatic algorithm to increase the probability of the related-key boomerang distinguisher of GIFT by searching the clustering of the related-key differential trails utilized in the boomerang distinguisher. We find a 20-round related-key boomerang distinguisher of GIFT-64 with probability 2^-58.557. The 25-round related-key rectangle attack on GIFT-64 is constructed based on it. This is the longest attack on GIFT-64. We also find a 19-round related-key boomerang distinguisher of GIFT-128 with probability 2^-109.626. We propose a 23-round related-key rectangle attack on GIFT-128 utilizing the 19-round distinguisher, which is the longest related-key attack on GIFT-128. The 24-round related-key rectangle attack on GIFT-64 and 22-round related-key boomerang attack on GIFT-128 are also presented. Thirdly, we search the clustering of the single-key differential trails. We increase the probability of a 20-round single-key differential distinguisher of GIFT-128 from 2^-121.415 to 2^-120.245. The time complexity of the 26-round differential attack on GIFT-128 is improved from 2^124:415 to 2^123:245.

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Minor revision. SAC 2020
Keywords
Matsui's algorithmRelated-key differential trailSingle-key differential trailClustering effectBoomerang attackRectangle attackGIFT
Contact author(s)
jifulei @ iie ac cn
History
2020-10-30: revised
2020-10-09: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/1242
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1242,
      author = {Fulei Ji and Wentao Zhang and Chunning Zhou and Tianyou Ding},
      title = {Improved (Related-key) Differential Cryptanalysis on GIFT},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2020/1242},
      year = {2020},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1242}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1242}
}
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