Paper 2021/1529

Autoguess: A Tool for Finding Guess-and-Determine Attacks and Key Bridges

Hosein Hadipour, Graz University of Technology
Maria Eichlseder, Graz University of Technology
Abstract

The guess-and-determine technique is one of the most widely used techniques in cryptanalysis to recover unknown variables in a given system of relations. In such attacks, a subset of the unknown variables is guessed such that the remaining unknowns can be deduced using the information from the guessed variables and the given relations. This idea can be applied in various areas of cryptanalysis such as finding the internal state of stream ciphers when a sufficient amount of output data is available, or recovering the internal state and the secret key of a block cipher from very few known plaintexts. Another important application is the key-bridging technique in key-recovery attacks on block ciphers, where the attacker aims to find the minimum number of required sub-key guesses to deduce all involved sub-keys via the key schedule. Since the complexity of the guess-and-determine technique directly depends on the number of guessed variables, it is essential to find the smallest possible guess basis, i.e., the subset of guessed variables from which the remaining variables can be deduced. In this paper, we present Autoguess, an easy-to-use general tool to search for a minimal guess basis. We propose several new modeling techniques to harness SAT/SMT, MILP, and Gröbner basis solvers. We demonstrate their usefulness in guess-and-determine attacks on stream ciphers and block ciphers, as well as finding key-bridges in key recovery attacks on block ciphers. Moreover, integrating our CP models for the key-bridging technique into the previous CP-based frameworks to search for distinguishers, we propose a unified and general CP model to search for key recovery friendly distinguishers which supports both linear and nonlinear key schedules.

Note: Our tool is publicly available under the following address: https://github.com/hadipourh/autoguess

Metadata
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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Applied Cryptography and Network Security - ACNS 2022
Keywords
Lightweight block cipher Guess and Determine Key-Bridging CP MILP SMT SAT Groebner basis SKINNY TWINE ZUC
Contact author(s)
hsn hadipour @ gmail com
maria eichlseder @ iaik tugraz at
History
2022-06-26: last of 2 revisions
2021-11-22: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1529
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1529,
      author = {Hosein Hadipour and Maria Eichlseder},
      title = {Autoguess: A Tool for Finding Guess-and-Determine Attacks and Key Bridges},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1529},
      year = {2021},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1529}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1529}
}
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