A related-key attack on block ciphers with weak recurrent key schedules

  • Authors:
  • Marina Pudovkina

  • Affiliations:
  • Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute, National Nuclear Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation

  • Venue:
  • FPS'11 Proceedings of the 4th Canada-France MITACS conference on Foundations and Practice of Security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

An important component of an iterated block cipher is the key schedule. In this paper, we consider iterated block ciphers with a key schedule algorithm described by a recurrence relation. We present an efficient related-key attack on those ciphers. With regard to similar techniques, such as the slide attack, our proposal considerably reduces the number of necessary plaintexts from O (2n /4) plaintexts to 2r , where r is the number of recovered round keys. The complexity of our attack is, moreover, almost equal to the complexity of guessing just one round key.