This report presents a new statistical attack on iterative block ciphers called the correlation attack which is a natural generalization of linear cryptanalysis. The attack is based on nding complex-valued functions on the input and the output of a cipher which have a high correlation. Their mutual relation is then exploited to yield information about the nal round key. Introducing the notions ...

In this paper presents the Linear Cryptanalysis on S-DES and Symmetric Block Ciphers Using Hill Cipher Method. As a vehicle of demonstration of this concept, choose simple yet representative block ciphers such as computationally tractable versions of S-DES, for the studies. The attack presented in this paper is applicable to block structure independently of the key scheduling. The attack needs ...

A robust and secure cryptosystem is an encrypting system that resists against all practical cryptanalysis methods such as statistical attacks, differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. To prove the resistance against these attacks, the cryptosystem designer must carry out a list of robustness tests. Considering these constraints, we present in the current paper results of robustness ...

This paper describes the CAST design procedure for constructing a family of DES-like Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) cryptosystems which appear to have good resistance to differential cryptanalysis, linear cryptanalysis, and related-key cryptanalysis, along with a number of other desirable cryptographic properties. Details of the design choices in the procedure are given, including those...

Several generalizations of linear cryptanalysis have been proposed in the past, as well as very similar attacks in a statistical point of view. In this paper, we define a rigorous general statistical framework which allows to interpret most of these attacks in a simple and unified way. Then, we explicitely construct optimal distinguishers, we evaluate their performance, and we prove that a bloc...

Differential cryptanalysis is one of the most popular methods in attacking block ciphers. However, there still some limitations in traditional differential cryptanalysis. On the other hand, researches of quantum algorithms have made great progress nowadays. This paper proposes two methods to apply quantum algorithms in differential cryptanalysis, and analysis their efficiencies and success prob...

Zero-correlation linear attack is a new method for cryptanalysis of block ciphers developed by Bogdanov et al. in 2012. In this paper we adapt the matrix method to find zerocorrelation linear approximations. Then we present several zero-correlation linear approximations for 14 rounds of LBlock and describe a cryptanalysis for 22 rounds of the reduced LBlock. After biclique attacks on LBlock rev...

Differential cryptanalysis analyzes ciphers by studying the development of differences during encryption. Linear cryptanalysis is similar but is based on studying approximate linear relations. In 1994, Langford and Hellman showed that both kinds of analysis can be combined together by a technique called differential-linear cryptanalysis, in which the differential part creates a linear approxima...

Simplified AES was developed in 2003 as a teaching tool to help students understand AES. It was designed so that the two primary attacks on symmetric-key block ciphers of that time, differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis, are not trivial on simplified AES. Algebraic cryptanalysis is a technique that uses modern equation solvers to attack cryptographic algorithms. There have been so...

Abstract. Biclique cryptanalysis was proposed by Bogdanov et al. in Asiacrypt 2011 as a new tool for cryptanalysis of block ciphers. A major hurdle in carrying out biclique cryptanalysis is that it has a very high query complexity (of the order of 2 for AES-128, 2 for AES-192 and 2 for AES-256). This naturally puts a big question mark over the practical feasibility of implementing biclique atta...