[Resource Topic] 2015/746: A 2^{70} Attack on the Full MISTY1

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Title:
A 2^{70} Attack on the Full MISTY1

Authors: Achiya Bar-On

Abstract:

MISTY1 is a block cipher designed by Matsui in 1997. It is widely deployed in Japan, and is recognized internationally as a European NESSIE-recommended cipher and an ISO standard. After almost 20 years of unsuccessful cryptanalytic attempts, a first attack on the full MISTY1 was presented at CRYPTO 2015 by Todo. The attack, using a new technique called {\it division property}, requires almost the full codebook and has time complexity of 2^{107.3} encryptions. In this paper we present a new attack on the full MISTY1. It is based on a modified variant of Todo’s division property, along with a variety of refined key-recovery techniques. Our attack requires the full codebook, but allows to retrieve 49 bits of the secret key in time complexity of only 2^{64} encryptions, and the full key in time complexity of 2^{69.5} encryptions. While our attack is clearly impractical due to its large data complexity, it shows that MISTY1 provides security of only 2^{70} — significantly less than what was considered before.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/746

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