Distinguishers for Ciphers and Known Key Attack against Rijndael with Large Blocks

  • Authors:
  • Marine Minier;Raphael C. Phan;Benjamin Pousse

  • Affiliations:
  • CITI Laboratory --- INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France 69621;Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK LE11 3TU;XLIM (UMR CNRS 6172), Université de Limoges, Limoges Cedex, France F-87060

  • Venue:
  • AFRICACRYPT '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cryptology in Africa: Progress in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Knudsen and Rijmen introduced the notion of known-key distinguishers in an effort to view block cipher security from an alternative perspective e.g. a block cipher viewed as a primitive underlying some other cryptographic construction such as a hash function; and applied this new concept to construct a 7-round distinguisher for the AES and a 7-round Feistel cipher. In this paper, we give a natural formalization to capture this notion, and present new distinguishers that we then use to construct known-key distinguishers for Rijndael with Large Blocks up to 7 and 8 rounds.