Paper 2026/875 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2026/875 ↗
Comparative Performance Analysis of MILP Solvers for Cryptanalysis
Abstract
This paper provides a performance comparison of five MILP solvers applied to related-key differential cryptanalysis of ITUbee [10]. We evaluate three open-source solvers (GLPK, HiGHS, SCIP) and two commercial solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX) using MILP models for 8, 10, and 12-round attacks. As rounds increase, the number of equations and con- straints grows exponentially. Experiments used an 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor with 32 GB of RAM. Commercial solvers (Gurobi and CPLEX) perform better than open-source options, achieving up to 94× speedup compared to GLPK for the 12-round model. This work provides guidance for choosing a solver for MILP-based cryptanalysis.
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PDF- Category
- Attacks and cryptanalysis
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2026-05-05: last updated
- 2026-05-05: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2026/875
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2026/875,
author = {Halil İbrahim Kaplan},
title = {Comparative Performance Analysis of MILP Solvers for Cryptanalysis},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2026/875},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/875}
}