Paper 2005/383 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2005/383 ↗

Key Mixing in Block Ciphers through Addition modulo $2^n$

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Dipanwita RoyChowdhury
Abstract

The classical technique to perform key mixing in block ciphers is through exclusive-or (exor). In this paper we show that when the $n$-bit key is mixed in a block cipher of size $n$ bits via addition modulo $2^n$, the bias of the linear approximations falls exponentially fast. Experimental results have been provided to show that such a scheme cannot be cryptanalyzed using Linear Cryptanalysis.

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Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2005-10-23: last updated
2005-10-23: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/383
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/383,
      author = {Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Dipanwita RoyChowdhury},
      title = {Key Mixing in Block Ciphers through Addition modulo $2^n$},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/383},
      year = {2005},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/383}
}
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