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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gerault, David
• Lafourcade, Pascal
• Minier, Marine
• Solnon, Christine

Titel

Computing AES related-key differential characteristics with constraint programming

Ist Teil von

• Artificial intelligence, 2020-01, Vol.278, p.103183, Article 103183

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cryptanalysis aims at testing the properties of encryption processes, and this usually implies solving hard optimization problems. In this paper, we focus on related-key differential attacks for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is the encryption standard for block ciphers. To mount these attacks, cryptanalysts need to solve the optimal related-key differential characteristic problem. Dedicated approaches do not scale well for this problem, and need weeks to solve its hardest instances. In this paper, we improve existing Constraint Programming (CP) approaches for computing optimal related-key differential characteristics: we add new constraints that detect inconsistencies sooner, and we introduce a new decomposition of the problem in two steps. These improvements allow us to compute all optimal related-key differential characteristics for AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256 in a few hours.