Paper 2022/725 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2022/725 ↗

Revisiting Related-Key Boomerang attacks on AES using computer-aided tool

Patrick Derbez
Marie Euler
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Phuong Hoa Nguyen
Abstract

In recent years, several MILP models were introduced to search automatically for boomerang distinguishers and boomerang attacks on block ciphers. However, they can only be used when the key schedule is linear. Here, a new model is introduced to deal with nonlinear key schedules as it is the case for AES. This model is more complex and actually it is too slow for exhaustive search. However, when some hints are added to the solver, it found the current best related-key boomerang attack on AES-192 with $2^{124}$ time, $2^{124}$ data, and $2^{79.8}$ memory complexities, which is better than the one presented by Biryukov and Khovratovich at ASIACRYPT 2009 with complexities $2^{176}/2^{123}/2^{152}$ respectively. This represents a huge improvement for the time and memory complexity, illustrating the power of MILP in cryptanalysis.

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Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2023-03-07: last updated
2022-06-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/725
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/725,
      author = {Patrick Derbez and Marie Euler and Pierre-Alain Fouque and Phuong Hoa Nguyen},
      title = {Revisiting Related-Key Boomerang attacks on AES using computer-aided tool},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/725},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/725}
}
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