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CUBE Cipher: A Family of Quasi-Involutive Block Ciphers Easy to Mask

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Codes, Cryptology, and Information Security (C2SI 2015)

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new quasi-involutive lightweight design called CUBE cipher family. The design has been carefully chosen to be easily masked. The basic building block is a cube of size n ×n ×n on which are applied SPN transformations followed by a cube mapping.

We analyze the proposals from a security point of view and provide a full hardware implementation analysis.

This work was partially supported by the French National Agency of Research: ANR-11-INS-011.

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  1. XLIM (UMR CNRS 7252), Université de Limoges, 123 avenue A. Thomas, 87060, Limoges Cedex, France

    Thierry P. Berger

  2. Airbus Defence and Space - CyberSecurity, 1 Bd Jean Moulin, CS 40001, MetaPole, 78996, Elancourt Cedex, France

    Julien Francq

  3. INRIA - INSA-Lyon, CITI, Université de Lyon, F-69621, Villeurbanne, France

    Marine Minier

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  1. University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

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  2. University of Caen, Caen, France

    Abderrahmane Nitaj

  3. LAGA,Universities of Paris 8 and Paris 13, Saint-Denis Cedex 02, France

    Claude Carlet

  4. University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

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Berger, T.P., Francq, J., Minier, M. (2015). CUBE Cipher: A Family of Quasi-Involutive Block Ciphers Easy to Mask. In: El Hajji, S., Nitaj, A., Carlet, C., Souidi, E. (eds) Codes, Cryptology, and Information Security. C2SI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9084. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18681-8_8

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