Differential Cryptanalysis of the ICE Encryption Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Bart Van Rompay;Lars R. Knudsen;Vincent Rijmen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FSE '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

ICE is a 64-bit block cipher presented at the Fast Software Encryption Workshop in January 1997. It introduced the concept of a keyed permutation to improve the resistance against differential and linear cryptanalysis. In this paper we will show however that we can use low Hamming weighted differences to perform a practical, key dependent, differential attack on ICE. The main conclusion is that the keyed permutation is not as effective as it was conjectured to be.