[Resource Topic] 2024/1300: SoK: 5 Years of Neural Differential Cryptanalysis

Welcome to the resource topic for 2024/1300

Title:
SoK: 5 Years of Neural Differential Cryptanalysis

Authors: David Gerault, Anna Hambitzer, Moritz Huppert, Stjepan Picek

Abstract:

At CRYPTO 2019, A. Gohr introduced Neural Differential Cryptanalysis by applying deep learning to modern block cipher cryptanalysis. Surprisingly, the resulting neural differential distinguishers enabled a new state-of-the-art key recovery complexity for 11 rounds of SPECK32. As of May 2024, according to Google Scholar, Gohr’s article has been cited 178 times. The wide variety of targets, techniques, settings, and evaluation methodologies that appear in these follow-up works grants a careful systematization of knowledge, which we provide in this paper. More specifically, we propose a taxonomy of these 178 publications and focus on the 50 that deal with differential neural distinguishers to systematically review and compare them. We then discuss two challenges for the field, namely comparability of neural distinguishers and
scaling.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1300

See all topics related to this paper.

Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.

Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.

For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .