Bayesian modeling for differential cryptanalysis of block ciphers: A DES instance

V Agate, F Concone, A De Paola, P Ferraro… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Encryption algorithms based on block ciphers are among the most widely adopted solutions
for providing information security. Over the years, a variety of methods have been proposed …

A new neural distinguisher considering features derived from multiple ciphertext pairs

Y Chen, Y Shen, H Yu, S Yuan - The Computer Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neural-aided cryptanalysis is a challenging topic, in which the neural distinguisher () is a
core module. In this paper, we propose a new considering multiple ciphertext pairs …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum neural network based distinguisher on SPECK-32/64

H Kim, K Jang, S Lim, Y Kang, W Kim, H Seo - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
As IoT technology develops, many sensor devices are being used in our life. To protect such
sensor data, lightweight block cipher techniques such as SPECK-32 are applied. However …

A cipher-agnostic neural training pipeline with automated finding of good input differences

E Bellini, D Gerault, A Hambitzer, M Rossi - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2022 - eprint.iacr.org
Neural cryptanalysis is the study of cryptographic primitives throughmachine learning
techniques. Following Gohr's seminal paper at CRYPTO 2019, afocus has been placed on …

MILP based differential attack on round reduced WARP

M Kumar, T Yadav - International Conference on Security, Privacy, and …, 2021 - Springer
WARP is a 128-bit lightweight block cipher presented by S. Banik et al. at SAC 2020. It is
based on 32-nibble type-2 Generalised Feistel Network (GFN) structure and uses a …

An efficient differential analysis method based on deep learning

Y Huang, L Li, Y Guo, Y Ou, X Huang - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Differential analysis is a vital tool for evaluating the security of cryptography algorithms.
There has been a growing interest in the differential distinguisher based on deep learning …

Output prediction attacks on block ciphers using deep learning

H Kimura, K Emura, T Isobe, R Ito, K Ogawa… - … Conference on Applied …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we propose deep learning-based output prediction attacks in a blackbox
setting. As preliminary experiments, we first focus on two toy SPN block ciphers (small …

New results on machine learning-based distinguishers

A Baksi, J Breier, VA Dasu, X Hou, H Kim, H Seo - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning (ML) is almost ubiquitously used in multiple disciplines nowadays.
Recently, we have seen its usage in the realm of differential distinguishers for symmetric key …

Deep neural networks aiding cryptanalysis: A case study of the speck distinguisher

N Băcuieți, L Batina, S Picek - International Conference on Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract At CRYPTO'19, A. Gohr proposed neural distinguishers for the lightweight block
cipher Speck32/64, achieving better results than the state-of-the-art at that point. However …

Differential analysis of ARX block ciphers based on an improved genetic algorithm

M Kang, Y Li, L Jiao, M Wang - Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential cryptanalysis is one of the most critical analysis methods to evaluate the security
strength of cryptographic algorithms. This paper first applies the genetic algorithm to search …