Improved single-key attacks on 8-round AES-192 and AES-256

Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Adi Shamir

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Abstract

AES is the most widely used block cipher today, and its security is one of the most important issues in cryptanalysis. After 13 years of analysis, related-key attacks were recently found against two of its flavors (AES-192 and AES-256). However, such a strong type of attack is not universally accepted as a valid attack model, and in the more standard single-key attack model at most 8 rounds of these two versions can be currently attacked. In the case of 8-round AES-192, the only known attack (found 10 years ago) is extremely marginal, requiring the evaluation of essentially all the 2128 possible plaintext/ciphertext pairs in order to speed up exhaustive key search by a factor of 16. In this paper we introduce three new cryptanalytic techniques, and use them to get the first non-marginal attack on 8-round AES-192 (making its time complexity about a million times faster than exhaustive search, and reducing its data complexity to about 1/32,000 of the full codebook). In addition, our new techniques can reduce the best known time complexities for all the other combinations of 7-round and 8-round AES-192 and AES-256.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology, ASIACRYPT 2010 - 16th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages158-176
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)3642173721, 9783642173721
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event16th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2010 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 5 Dec 20109 Dec 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6477 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2010
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period5/12/109/12/10

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