A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis

Block ciphers provide confidentiality by encrypting confidential messages into unintelligible form, which are irreversible without knowledge of the secret key used. During the design of a block cipher, its security against cryptanalysis must be considered. History has shown that a cipher designed...

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Main Authors:	Phan, Raphael C. W., Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE Computer Society 2006
Subjects:	TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
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spelling	iium-65052013-07-22T03:41:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6505/ A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis Phan, Raphael C. W. Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Block ciphers provide confidentiality by encrypting confidential messages into unintelligible form, which are irreversible without knowledge of the secret key used. During the design of a block cipher, its security against cryptanalysis must be considered. History has shown that a cipher designed without an adequate treatment of this will often lead to flaws and attacks by other researchers, sometimes devastatingly so. The problem for an aspiring cipher designer is that there are no standard texts on block cipher cryptanalysis because it is a fast changing field. The commonly available references are academic journals and conference proceedings, which may not be easy to grasp for researchers new to cryptanalysis. This paper presents the Xi framework, which is designed to compactly describe the block cipher cryptanalysis techniques regardless of their individual differences. This provides the cryptanalyst with a general framework to describe attacks on block ciphers, with the additional capabilities of allowing specification of the technical details of each different type of attack and of comparison of their respective strengths. Comparing different distinguishers in this framework also allows us to see natural generalizations and trigger nice open problems. We then show how to apply this Xi framework to the description of various attacks on popular and recent block ciphers. IEEE Computer Society 2006-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6505/1/A_Framework_for_Describing_Block_Cipher_Cryptanalysis.pdf Phan, Raphael C. W. and Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar (2006) A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 55 (11). pp. 1402-1409. ISSN 0018-9340 http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/tc/2006/11/t1402-abs.html 10.1109/TC.2006.169
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description	Block ciphers provide confidentiality by encrypting confidential messages into unintelligible form, which are irreversible without knowledge of the secret key used. During the design of a block cipher, its security against cryptanalysis must be considered. History has shown that a cipher designed without an adequate treatment of this will often lead to flaws and attacks by other researchers, sometimes devastatingly so. The problem for an aspiring cipher designer is that there are no standard texts on block cipher cryptanalysis because it is a fast changing field. The commonly available references are academic journals and conference proceedings, which may not be easy to grasp for researchers new to cryptanalysis. This paper presents the Xi framework, which is designed to compactly describe the block cipher cryptanalysis techniques regardless of their individual differences. This provides the cryptanalyst with a general framework to describe attacks on block ciphers, with the additional capabilities of allowing specification of the technical details of each different type of attack and of comparison of their respective strengths. Comparing different distinguishers in this framework also allows us to see natural generalizations and trigger nice open problems. We then show how to apply this Xi framework to the description of various attacks on popular and recent block ciphers.
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author	Phan, Raphael C. W. Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar
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title	A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis
title_short	A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis
title_full	A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis
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title_full_unstemmed	A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis
title_sort	framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis
publisher	IEEE Computer Society
publishDate	2006
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A framework for describing block cipher cryptanalysis

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