[Resource Topic] 2009/218: Efficient FPGA Implementations of High-Dimensional Cube Testers on the Stream Cipher Grain-128

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Title:
Efficient FPGA Implementations of High-Dimensional Cube Testers on the Stream Cipher Grain-128

Authors: Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Itai Dinur, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, Adi Shamir

Abstract:

Cube testers are a generic class of methods for building disstinguishers, based on cube attacks and on algebraic property-testers. In this paper, we report on an efficient FPGA implementation of cube testers on the stream cipher Grain-128. Our best result (a distinguisher on Grain-128 reduced to 237 rounds, out of 256) was achieved after a computation involving 2^54 clockings of Grain-128, with a 256×32 parallelization. An extrapolation of our results with standard methods suggests the possibility of a distinguishing attack on the full Grain-128 in time 2^83, which is well below the 2^128 complexity of exhaustive search. We also describe the method used for finding good cubes (a simple evolutionary algorithm), and report preliminary results on Grain-v1 obtained with a bitsliced C implementation.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/218

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