Cryptanalysis of reduced versions of the HIGHT block cipher from CHES 2006

  • Authors:
  • Jiqiang Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICISC'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Information security and cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

HIGHT is a 32-round block cipher with a 64-bit block size and a 128-bit user key, which was proposed at CHES '06 for low-resource applications like RFID. In this paper, we present an impossible differential attack on 25-round HIGHT, a related-key rectangle attack on 26- round HIGHT, and finally a related-key impossible differential attack on 28-round HIGHT. Our result suggests that the safety margin of HIGHT decreases from the originally expected thirteen rounds to about four rounds now.