Paper 2022/1549

The SAT-Based Automatic Searching and Experimental Verification for Differential Characteristics with Application to Midori64

Yingying Li, Nanjing Normal University
Qichun Wang, Nanjing Normal University
Abstract

In this paper, we show that it is inaccurate to apply the hypothesis of independent round keys to search for differential characteristics of a block cipher with a simple key schedule. Therefore, the derived differential characteristics may be invalid. We develop a SAT-based algorithm to verify the validity of differential characteristics. Furthermore, we take the key schedule into account and thus put forward an algorithm to directly find the valid differential characteristics. All experiments are performed on Midori64 and we find some interesting results.

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Category
Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
Lightweight block cipherDifferential characteristicSATMidori64Hypothesis of independent round keys
Contact author(s)
yyli @ nnu edu cn
qcwang @ fudan edu cn
History
2023-02-11: revised
2022-11-08: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/1549
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1549,
      author = {Yingying Li and Qichun Wang},
      title = {The SAT-Based Automatic Searching and Experimental Verification for Differential Characteristics with Application to Midori64},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1549},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1549}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1549}
}
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