Udovenko, Aleksei[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) >]
2019
Selected Areas in Cryptography -- SAC 2019
Patterson, Kenneth G.
Stebila, Douglas
Springer International Publishing
LNCS, volume 11959
124-145
Yes
No
International
978-3-030-38471-5
Cham
Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2019
August 12-16, 2019
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
Canada
[en] In April 2018, Beierle et al. launched the 3rd SKINNY cryptanalysis competition, a contest that aimed at motivating the analysis of their recent tweakable block cipher SKINNY . In contrary to the previous editions, the focus was made on practical attacks: contestants were asked to recover a 128-bit secret key from a given set of 2^20 plaintext blocks. The suggested SKINNY instances are 4- to 20-round reduced variants of SKINNY-64-128 and SKINNY-128-128. In this paper, we explain how to solve the challenges for 10-round SKINNY-128-128 and for 12-round SKINNY-64-128 in time equivalent to roughly 2^52 simple operations. Both techniques benefit from the highly biased sets of messages that are provided and that actually correspond to the encryption of various books in ECB mode.