[Resource Topic] 2022/1342: Safely Doubling your Block Ciphers for a Post-Quantum World

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Title:
Safely Doubling your Block Ciphers for a Post-Quantum World

Authors: Ritam Bhaumik, André Chailloux, Paul Frixons, María Naya Plasencia

Abstract:

In order to maintain a similar security level in a post-quantum setting, many symmetric primitives should have to double their keys and increase their state sizes. So far, no generic way for doing this is known that would provide convincing quantum security guarantees.
In this paper we propose a new generic construction that allows to double the key and the state size of a block cipher. For this we have modified the ECB-Mix-ECB (EME) construction, as we have been able to mount a new type of superposition attack on EME, and we provide several classical and quantum security arguments and analyses for our new construction QuEME. We propose a concrete instantiation of this construction with variants of AES-128.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1342

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