New Weak-Key Classes of IDEA

  • Authors:
  • Alex Biryukov;Jorge Nakahara, Jr.;Bart Preneel;Joos Vandewalle

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICICS '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a large collection of new weak-key classes for the IDEA cipher. The classes presented in this paper contain 253-264 weak keys (as compared with 251 differential weak keys presented by Daemen at CRYPTO'93 and 263 differential-linear weak-keys presented by Hawkes at EUROCRYPT'98). The novelty of our approach is in the use of boomerang distinguishers for the weak-key class membership test. We also show large weak-key classes for reduced-round versions of IDEA.