[Resource Topic] 2024/151: Improving Linear Key Recovery Attacks using Walsh Spectrum Puncturing

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Title:
Improving Linear Key Recovery Attacks using Walsh Spectrum Puncturing

Authors: Antonio Flórez-Gutiérrez, Yosuke Todo

Abstract:

In some linear key recovery attacks, the function which determines the value of the linear approximation from the plaintext, ciphertext and key is replaced by a similar map in order to improve the time or memory complexity at the cost of a data complexity increase. We propose a general framework for key recovery map substitution, and introduce Walsh spectrum puncturing, which consists of removing carefully-chosen coefficients from the Walsh spectrum of this map. The capabilities of this technique are illustrated by describing improved attacks on reduced-round Serpent (including the first 12-round attack on the 192-bit key variant), GIFT-128 and NOEKEON, as well as the full DES.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/151

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