Abstract Public-key cryptographic primitives are time consuming for resource-constrained devices. A classical problem is to securely offload group exponentiations from a (comparatively) weak device—the client—to an untrusted more powerful server. delegation protocol must usually meet two security objectives: privacy—the exponent or the base should not be revealed passive adversary—and verifiabi...

We show that the linear cryptanalytic attack on RC5 that was published by Kaliski and Yin at Crypto’95 does not work as expected due to the failure of some hidden assumptions involved. Then we present new linear attacks on RC5. Our attacks use the same linear approximation as the one used by Kaliski and Yin. Therefore, the plaintext requirement of our attack is around 4w2r−2 which is impractica...

Cryptanalysis of block ciphers involves massive computations which are independent of each other and can be instantiated simultaneously so that the solution space is explored at a faster rate. With the advent of low cost Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s), building special purpose hardware for computationally intensive applications has now become possible. For this the Data Encryption Stan...

SIMON and SPECK family ciphers have attracted the attention of cryptographers all over the world since proposed by NSA in June, 2013. At CHES 2015, Simeck, a new block cipher inspired from both SIMON and SPECK is proposed, which is more compact and efficient. However, the security evaluation on Simeck against zero correlation linear cryptanalysis seems missing from the specification. The main f...

Cryptology is a thriving research area of great practical importance. It is a fundamental building block of communications security. Cryptographic techniques currently being utilized in the field of communication. This paper presents an approach for the heuristic search procedures for cryptanalysis and development of enhanced cryptographic techniques. To implement the proposed Tabu search, Gene...