Near-Collision Attack on the Step-Reduced Compression Function of Skein-256

Hongbo Yu; Jiazhe Chen; Keting jia; Xiaoyun Wang

Paper 2011/148 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2011/148 ↗

Near-Collision Attack on the Step-Reduced Compression Function of Skein-256

Hongbo Yu

Jiazhe Chen

Keting jia

Xiaoyun Wang

Abstract

The Hash function Skein is one of the 5 finalists of NIST SHA-3 competition. It is designed based on the threefish block cipher and it only uses three primitive operations: modular addition, rotation and bitwise XOR (ARX). In this paper, we combine two short differential paths to a long differential path using the modular differential technique. And we present the semi-free start near-collision attack up to the 32-step Skein-256 with the Hamming difference 51. The complexity of our attack is about $2^{105}$.

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Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2011-04-01: last updated; 2011-03-27: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2011/148
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/148,
      author = {Hongbo Yu and Jiazhe Chen and Keting jia and Xiaoyun Wang},
      title = {Near-Collision Attack on the Step-Reduced Compression Function of Skein-256},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/148},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/148}
}