Impossible Differential Analysis on 8-Round PRINCE

Yaoling Ding, Keting Jia*, An Wang, Ying Shi

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Abstract

PRINCE is a lightweight block cipher, which was proposed by Borghoff et al. in Asiacrypt 2012. Various cryptanalytic techniques have been employed to evaluate the security of PRINCE. In 2017, Ding et al. constructed a 4-round impossible differential based on some observations on M′ operation and launched impossible differential attacks on 6- and 7-round PRINCE and the underlying PRINCEcore. In this paper, we explore the differential distribution table (DDT) of the S-box employed in PRINCE and construct a more detailed DDT which contains the input/output values corresponding to each differential. Taking advantage of the table, we compute the subkeys instead of guessing them. With this technique, we extend the impossible differential attacks of PRINCE and PRINCEcore to eight rounds. The corresponding computational and complexities are 110.7 and 62.26 encryptions, respectively, which are much less than exhaustive search. And the data complexities are 64 and 60 chosen plaintexts, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019
EditorsQi Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Lang Li, Hui-Huang Zhao, Huiyu Zhou
PublisherSpringer
Pages383-395
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9789811537523
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019 - Changsha, China
Duration: 18 Oct 201920 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1143
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period18/10/1920/10/19

Keywords

  • Impossible differential
  • M′ operation
  • PRINCE
  • S-box

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