[Resource Topic] 2021/703: Quantum Multi-Collision Distinguishers

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Title:
Quantum Multi-Collision Distinguishers

Authors: Zhenzhen Bao, Jian Guo, Shun Li, Phuong Pham

Abstract:

In EUROCRYPT~2020, Hosoyamada and Sasaki find differential paths with probability 2^{-2n/3} can be useful in quantum collision attacks, v.s. 2^{-n/2} for classical collision attacks. This observation led to attacks for more rounds on some AES-like hash functions. In this paper, we quantize the multi-collision distinguisher proposed by Biryukov, Khovratovich, and Nikolic̈ at CRYPTO~2009, and propose quantum multi-collision distinguishers. Compared against the tight bound 2^{\frac{n}{2} \cdot(1-\frac{1}{2^{q}-1})} for quantum multi-collision on ideal functions by Liu and Zhang in EUROCRYPT~2019, we find the probability of useful differential paths can be as low as 2^{-n}. This leads to even more attacked rounds than both classical multi-collision distinguishers and quantum collision attacks. To demonstrate the effectiveness, we applied the attack model to AES, Rijndael, and the post-quantum block cipher design Saturnin. Distinguishing attacks are found on the full version of AES-192, AES-256, Rijndael-128-160, and Rijndael-128-224. Other results include 8-round AES-128, 11-round Rijndael-160-192, 12-round Rijndael-160-256, and 10-round Saturnin-256.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/703

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