Improved Cube Attacks on Some Authenticated Encryption Ciphers and Stream Ciphers in the Internet of Things

On Authenticated Encryption Using Stream Ciphers Supporting an Initialisation Vector

We describe a systematic framework for using a stream cipher supporting an initialisation vector (IV) to perform various tasks of authentication and authenticated encryption. These include message authentication code (MAC), authenticated encryption (AE), authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) and deterministic authenticated encryption (DAE) with associated data. Several schemes ar...

Stream Ciphers: from Correlation Attacks to the Cube Attack

A note on "Improved Fast Correlation Attacks on Stream Ciphers"

In SAC’08, an improved fast correlation attack on stream ciphers was proposed. This attack is based on the fast correlation attack proposed at Crypto’00 and combined with the fast Walsh transform. However, we found that the attack results are wrong. In this paper, we correct the results of the attack algorithm by analyzing it theoretically. Also we propose a threshold of the valid bias.

Linear Extension Cube Attack on Stream Ciphers

Basing on the original Cube attack, this paper proposes an improved method of Cube attack on stream ciphers, which makes improvement on the pre-processing phase of the original attack. The new method can induce maxterms of higher-order from those of lower-order by the trade-off between time and space, thus recovering more key bits and reducing the search complexity on higher-dimension. In this ...

Some Results on Distinguishing Attacks on Stream Ciphers

Stream ciphers are cryptographic primitives that are used to ensure the privacy of a message that is sent over a digital communication channel. In this thesis we will present new cryptanalytic results for several stream ciphers. The thesis provides a general introduction to cryptology, explains the basic concepts, gives an overview of various cryptographic primitives and discusses a number of d...