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Differential Sieving for 2-Step Matching Meet-in-the-Middle Attack with Application to LBlock

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Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy (LightSec 2014)

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In this paper, we propose a modified approach for the basic meet-in-the-middle attack which we call differential sieving for 2-step matching. This technique improves the scope of the basic meet in the middle attack by providing means to extend the matching point for an extra round through differential matching and hence the overall number of the attacked rounds is extended. Our approach starts by first reducing the candidate matching space through differential matching, then the remaining candidates are further filtered by examining non shared key bits for partial state matching. This 2-step matching reduces the total matching probability and accordingly the number of remaining candidate keys that need to be retested is minimized. We apply our technique to the light weight block cipher LBlock and present a two known plaintexts attack on the fifteen round reduced cipher. Moreover, we combine our technique with short restricted bicliques and present a chosen plaintext attack on Lblock reduced to eighteen rounds.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions that helped improve the quality of the paper. This work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Le Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT).

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    Riham AlTawy & Amr M. Youssef

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AlTawy, R., Youssef, A.M. (2015). Differential Sieving for 2-Step Matching Meet-in-the-Middle Attack with Application to LBlock. In: Eisenbarth, T., Öztürk, E. (eds) Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy. LightSec 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8898. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16363-5_8

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