Paper 2020/1089 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2020/1089 ↗

Improved Attacks on sLiSCP Permutation and Tight Bound of Limited Birthday Distinguishers

Akinori Hosoyamada
María Naya-Plasencia
Yu Sasaki
Abstract

Limited birthday distinguishers (LBDs) are widely used tools for the cryptanalysis of cryptographic permutations. In this paper we propose LBDs on several variants of the sLiSCP permutation family that are building blocks of two round 2 candidates of the NIST lightweight standardization process: SPIX and SpoC. We improve the number of steps with respect to the previously known best results, that used rebound attack. We improve the techniques used for solving the middle part, called inbound, and we relax the external conditions in order to extend the previous attacks. The lower bound of the complexity of LBDs has been proved only against functions. In this paper, we prove for the first time the bound against permutations, which shows that the known upper bounds are tight.

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Secret-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2021-03-05: last updated
2020-09-15: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/1089
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1089,
      author = {Akinori Hosoyamada and María Naya-Plasencia and Yu Sasaki},
      title = {Improved Attacks on sLiSCP Permutation and Tight Bound of Limited Birthday Distinguishers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1089},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1089}
}
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