Paper 2026/1935 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2026/1935 ↗

A Note on the Security Analysis of Areion

Frank Denis
Abstract

Areion is a family of AES-based permutations designed for fast hashing and authenticated encryption of short messages. We identify errors in how its security analysis converts active S-box counts into differential and linear probability bounds, and give corrected calculations.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2026-09-08: last updated
2026-09-08: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2026/1935
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2026/1935,
      author = {Frank Denis},
      title = {A Note on the Security Analysis of Areion},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2026/1935},
      year = {2026},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1935}
}
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