Paper 2023/235

New Results on Machine Learning Based Distinguishers

Anubhab Baksi, Nanyang Technological University
Jakub Breier, Silicon Austria Labs
Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Pennsylvania State University
Xiaolu Hou, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Hyunji Kim, Hansung University
Hwajeong Seo, Hansung University
Abstract

Machine Learning (ML) is almost ubiquitously used in multiple disciplines nowadays. Recently, we have seen its usage in the realm of differential distinguishers for symmetric key ciphers. In this work, we explore the possibility of a number of ciphers with respect to various ML-based distinguishers. We show new distinguishers on the unkeyed and round reduced version of SPECK-32, SPECK-128, ASCON, SIMECK-32, SIMECK-64 and SKINNY-128. We explore multiple avenues in the process. In summary, we use neural network as well as support vector machine in various settings (such as varying the activation function), apart from experimenting with a number of input difference tuples. Among other results, we show a distinguisher of 8-round SPECK-32 that works with practical data complexity (most of the experiments take a few hours on a personal computer).

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. IEEE Access
DOI
10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3270396
Keywords
speckasconsimeckskinnydistinguishermachine learningdifferential
Contact author(s)
anubhab baksi @ ntu edu sg
jbreier @ jbreier com
vishnu98dasu @ gmail com
xiaolu hou @ stuba sk
khj1594012 @ gmail com
hwajeong84 @ gmail com
History
2023-04-29: last of 8 revisions
2023-02-20: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/235
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/235,
      author = {Anubhab Baksi and Jakub Breier and Vishnu Asutosh Dasu and Xiaolu Hou and Hyunji Kim and Hwajeong Seo},
      title = {New Results on Machine Learning Based Distinguishers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/235},
      year = {2023},
      doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3270396},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/235}
}
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