On linear systems of equations with distinct variables and small block size

  • Authors:
  • Jacques Patarin

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Versailles, Versailles, France

  • Venue:
  • ICISC'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we will prove the Conjecture 8.1. of [7]. We call it “Conjecture Pi⊕Pj ”. It is a purely combinatorial conjecture that has however some cryptographic consequence. For example, from this result we can improve the proven security bounds on random Feistel schemes with 5 rounds: we will prove that no adaptive chosen plaintext/chosen ciphertext attack can exist on 5 rounds Random Feistel Schemes when m≪2n. This result reach the optimal bound of security against an adversary with unlimited computing power (but limited by m queries) with the minimum number of rounds. It solves the last case of a famous open problem (cf [8]). An extended version of this paper is available from the author.