[Resource Topic] 2016/1053: SAT-based Cryptanalysis of Authenticated Ciphers from the CAESAR Competition

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Title:
SAT-based Cryptanalysis of Authenticated Ciphers from the CAESAR Competition

Authors: Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi, Miloš Klouček, Pawel Morawiecki, Ivica Nikolic̈, Josef Pieprzyk, Sebastian Wöjtowicz

Abstract:

We investigate six authenticated encryption schemes (ACORN, ASCON-128a, Ketje Jr, ICEPOLE-128a, MORUS, and NORX-32) from the CAESAR competition. We aim at state recovery attacks using a SAT solver as a main tool. Our analysis reveals that these schemes, as submitted to CAESAR, provide strong resistance against SAT-based state recoveries. To shed a light on their security margins, we also analyse modified versions of these algorithms, including round-reduced variants and versions with higher security claims. Our attacks on such variants require only a few known plaintext-ciphertext pairs and small memory requirements (to run the SAT solver), whereas time complexity varies from very practical (few seconds on a desktop PC) to `theoretical’ attacks.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1053

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