Paper 2021/575
Superposition Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks: Updates on Fundamental Security of AES-like Hashing
, Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University, Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanyang Technological UniversityAbstract
The Meet-in-the-Middle approach is one of the most powerful cryptanalysis techniques, demonstrated by its applications in preimage attacks on the full MD4, MD5, Tiger, HAVAL, and Haraka-512 v2 hash functions, and key recovery of the full block cipher KTANTAN. The success relies on the separation of a primitive into two independent chunks, where each active cell of the state is used to represent only one chunk or is otherwise considered unusable once mixed. We observe that some of such cells are linearly mixed and can be as useful as the independent ones. This leads to the introduction of superposition states and a whole suite of accompanied techniques, which we incorporate into the MILP-based search framework proposed by Bao et al. at EUROCRYPT 2021 and Dong et al. at CRYPTO 2021, and find applications on a wide range of AES-like hash functions and block ciphers.
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PDF
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- A major revision of an IACR publication in CRYPTO 2022
- Keywords
- Whirlpool Grøstl AES hashing modes MITM MILP
- Contact author(s)
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baozhenzhen10 @ gmail com
guojian @ ntu edu sg
shidanping @ iie ac cn
TUYI0002 @ e ntu edu sg - History
- 2022-06-23: last of 3 revisions
- 2021-05-03: received
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- https://ia.cr/2021/575
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/575,
author = {Zhenzhen Bao and Jian Guo and Danping Shi and Yi Tu},
title = {Superposition Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks: Updates on Fundamental Security of {AES}-like Hashing},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/575},
year = {2021},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/575}
}
