Determining quality of s-boxes using pseudo random sequences generated from stream ciphers

  • Authors:
  • Anh P. Nguyen;Thuc D. Nguyen

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Hochiminh city, Vietnam;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Hochiminh city, Vietnam

  • Venue:
  • ICA3PP'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, two stream ciphers, SOBER-t32 and SNOW 2.0 are used to generate sequences of pseudo random numbers. The original S-Boxes of these ciphers are replaced by Skipjack, IRSC, AES-Rijndael S-Box, and variants of AES-Rijndael S-Boxes. Pseudo-random sequences generated by SOBER-t32 and SNOW 2.0 using these S-Boxes are then tested by statistical test suite and analyzed by linear distinguishing cryptanalysis for randomness properties. The results show that these S-Boxes do not have much contribution to the statistical randomness of the pseudo-sequences but play significant roles on the nonlinearity of the ciphers. Hence, affect the randomness of sequences in cryptanalysis aspect.