[Resource Topic] 2021/020: Catching the Fastest Boomerangs - Application to SKINNY

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Title:
Catching the Fastest Boomerangs - Application to SKINNY

Authors: Stéphanie Delaune, Patrick Derbez, Mathieu Vavrille

Abstract:

In this paper we describe a new tool to search for boomerang distinguishers. One limitation of the MILP model of Liu et al. is that it handles only one round for the middle part while Song et al. have shown that dependencies could affect much more rounds, for instance up to 6 rounds for SKINNY. Thus we describe a new approach to turn an MILP model to search for truncated characteristics into an MILP model to search for truncated boomerang characteristics automatically handling the middle rounds. We then show a new CP model to search for the best possible instantiations to identify good boomerang distinguishers. Finally we systematized the method initiated by Song et al. to precisely compute the probability of a boomerang. As a result, we found many new boomerang distinguishers up to 24 rounds in the TK3 model. In particular, we improved by a factor 2^{30} the probability of the best known distinguisher against 18-round SKINNY-128/256.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/020

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