Paper 2024/483
Lower data attacks on Advanced Encryption Standard
Abstract
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the most commonly used and analyzed encryption algorithms. In this work, we present new combinations of some prominent attacks on AES, achieving new records in data requirements among attacks, utilizing only $2^4$ and $2^{16}$ chosen plaintexts (CP) for 6-round and 7-round AES-192/256 respectively. One of our attacks is a combination of a meet-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack with a square attack mounted on 6-round AES-192/256 while another attack combines an MiTM attack and an integral attack, utilizing key space partitioning technique, on 7-round AES-192/256. Moreover, we illustrate that impossible differential (ID) attacks can be viewed as the dual of MiTM attacks in certain aspects which enables us to recover the correct key using the meet-in-the-middle (MiTM) technique instead of sieving through all potential wrong keys in our ID attack. Furthermore, we introduce the constant guessing technique in the inner rounds which significantly reduces the number of key bytes to be searched. The time and memory complexities of our attacks remain marginal.
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Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
- DOI
- 10.55730/1300-0632.4072
- Keywords
- Block cipherAESmeet-in-the-middle attacksquare attackcryptanalysisencryptionimpossible differential attack
- Contact author(s)
- orhunkara @ iyte edu tr
- History
- 2024-03-26: approved
- 2024-03-25: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2024/483
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/483, author = {Orhun Kara}, title = {Lower data attacks on Advanced Encryption Standard}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/483}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.55730/1300-0632.4072}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/483} }