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Near Collision Attack Against Grain V1

Subhadeep Banik, Willi Meier, Daniel Patrick Collins

A near collision attack against the Grain v1 stream cipher was proposed by Zhang et al. in Eurocrypt 18. The attack uses the fact that two internal states of the stream cipher with very low hamming distance between them, produce similar keystream sequences ...

2023

Atom: A Stream Cipher with Double Key Filter

Subhadeep Banik, Willi Meier, Andrea Felice Caforio

It has been common knowledge that for a stream cipher to be secure against generic TMD tradeoff attacks, the size of its internal state in bits needs to be at least twice the size of the length of its secret key. In FSE 2015, Armknecht and Mikhalev however ...

2021

Melting SNOW-V: improved lightweight architectures

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Andrea Felice Caforio

SNOW-V is a stream cipher proposed by Ekdahl et al. at IACR ToSC 2019(3) with an objective to be deployed as the encryption primitive in 5G systems. The stream cipher offers 256-bit security and is ready for deployment in the post-quantum era, in which as ...

2022

Six Shades of AES

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli

Recently there have been various attempts to construct light weight implementations of the AES-128 encryption and combined encryption/ decryption circuits. However no known lightweight circuit exists forAES-192 and AES-256, the variants of AES that use lon ...

2019

Towards Low Energy Stream Ciphers

Francesco Regazzoni, Subhadeep Banik, Willi Meier

Energy optimization is an important design aspect of lightweight cryptography. Since low energy ciphers drain less battery, they are invaluable components of devices that operate on a tight energy budget such as handheld devices or RFID tags. At Asiacrypt ...

2018

Some Cryptanalytic Results on Lizard

Subhadeep Banik

Lizard is a lightweight stream cipher proposed by Hamann, Krause and Meier in IACR ToSC 2017. It has a Grain-like structure with two state registers of size 90 and 31 bits. The cipher uses a 120 bit secret key and a 64 bit IV. The authors claim that Lizard ...

2017

Synthetic Linear Analysis: Improved Attacks on CubeHash and Rabbit

Serge Vaudenay, Yi Lu, Willi Meier

It has been considered most important and difficult to analyze the bias and find a large bias regarding the security of crypto-systems, since the invention of linear cryptanalysis. The demonstration of a large bias will usually imply that the target crypto ...

Springer2012

A new approach to chi^2 cryptanalysis of block ciphers

Jorge Nakahara

The main contribution of this paper is a new approach to χ2 analyses of block ciphers in which plaintexts are chosen in a manner similar to that in a square/saturation attack. The consequence is a faster detection of χ2 correlation when compared to convent ...

Springer2009

Linear (Hull) and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Block Cipher PRESENT

Pouyan Sepehrdad, Jorge Nakahara

The contributions of this paper include the first linear hull and a revisit of the algebraic cryptanalysis of reduced-round variants of the block cipher PRESENT, under known-plaintext and ciphertext- only settings. We introduce a pure algebraic cryptanalys ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2009

Analysis of lightweight stream ciphers

Simon Fischer

Stream ciphers are fast cryptographic primitives to provide confidentiality of electronically transmitted data. They can be very suitable in environments with restricted resources, such as mobile devices or embedded systems. Practical examples are cell pho ...

EPFL2008