[Resource Topic] 2012/176: Improvements of Algebraic Attacks Based on Structured Gaussian Elimination

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Title:
Improvements of Algebraic Attacks Based on Structured Gaussian Elimination

Authors: Satrajit Ghosh, Abhijit Das

Abstract:

Algebraic attacks are studied as a potential cryptanalytic procedure for various types of ciphers. The XL_SGE algorithm has been recently proposed to improve the complexity of the XL attack. XL_SGE uses structured Gaussian elimination (SGE) during the expansion phase of XL. In this paper, we establish that XL_SGE suffers from some serious drawbacks that impair the effectiveness of SGE-based reduction at all multiplication stages except the first. In order to avoid this problem, we propose several improvements of XL_SGE. Our modifications are based upon partial monomial multiplication and handling of columns of weight two. Our modified algorithms have been experimentally verified to be substantially superior to XL_SGE.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/176

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