Known-key attacks on generalized Feistel schemes with SP round function

Hyungchul Kang, Deukjo Hong, Dukjae Moon, Daesung Kwon, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong

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Abstract

We present attacks on the generalized Feistel schemes, where each round function consists of a subkey XOR, S-boxes, and then a linear transformation (i.e. a Substitution-Permutation (SP) round function). Our techniques are based on rebound attacks. We assume that the S-boxes have a good differential property and the linear transformation has an optimal branch number. Under this assumption, we firstly describe known-key distinguishers on the type-1, -2, and -3 generalized Feistel schemes up to 21, 13 and 8 rounds, respectively. Then, we use the distinguishers to make several attacks on hash functions where Merkle-Damgård domain extender is used and the compression function is constructed with Matyas-Meyer-Oseas or Miyaguchi-Preneel hash modes from generalized Feistel schemes. Collision attacks are made for 11 rounds of type-1 Feistel scheme. Near collision attacks are made for 13 rounds of type-1 Feistel scheme and 9 rounds of type-2 Feistel scheme. Half collision attacks are made for 15 rounds of type-1 Feistel scheme, 9 rounds of type-2 Feistel scheme, and 5 rounds of type-3 Feistel scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1550-1560
Number of pages11
JournalIEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
VolumeE95-A
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2012

Keywords

  • Collision attack
  • Generalized Feistel schemes
  • Hashing mode
  • Known-key distinguisher
  • Rebound attack

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