[Resource Topic] 2015/935: Joint Data and Key Distribution of Simple, Multiple, and Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis Test Statistic and Its Impact to Data Complexity

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Title:
Joint Data and Key Distribution of Simple, Multiple, and Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis Test Statistic and Its Impact to Data Complexity

Authors: Céline Blondeau, Kaisa Nyberg

Abstract:

The power of a statistical attack is inversely proportional to the number of plaintexts needed to recover information on the encryption key. By analyzing the distribution of the random variables involved in the attack, cryptographers aim to provide a good estimate of the data complexity of the attack. In this paper, we analyze the hypotheses made in simple, multiple, and multidimensional linear attacks that use either non-zero or zero correlations, and provide more accurate estimates of the data complexity of these attacks. This is achieved by taking, for the first time, into consideration the key variance of the statistic for both the right and wrong keys. For the family of linear attacks considered in this paper, we differentiate between the attacks which are performed in the known-plaintext and those in the distinct-known-plaintext model.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/935

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