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A Chosen IV Related Key Attack on Grain-128a

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Author(s)

Subhadeep Banik, Subhamoy Maitra, Santanu (. Sarkar, Meltem Sonmez Turan

Abstract

Due to the symmetric padding used in the stream cipher Grain v1 and Grain-128, it is possible to find Key-IV pairs that generate shifted keystreams efficiently. Based on this observation, Lee et al. presented a related-Key chosen IV attack on Grain v1 and Grain-128 in ACISP 2008. Later, the designers introduced Grain-128a having an asymmetric padding. As a result, the existing idea of related-Key chosen IV attack does not work on this new design. In this paper, we present a key recovery attack on Grain-128a, in a related-Key chosen IV setting. We show that using around $\gamma \cdot 2^32}$ ($\gamma$ is a constant related to actual experimentation and it is sufficient to estimate it as $2^8$) related keys and $\gamma \cdot 2^64}$ chosen IVs, it is possible to obtain $32\cdot \gamma$ simple nonlinear equations and solve them to recover the secret key in Grain-128a.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
Volume
7959
Conference Dates
July 1-3, 2013
Conference Location
Brisbane, AU
Conference Title
18th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy

Keywords

Cryptanalysis, eStream, Grain-128a, Related Keys, Stream Cipher

Citation

Banik, S. , Maitra, S. , Sarkar, S. and Sonmez Turan, M. (2013), A Chosen IV Related Key Attack on Grain-128a, Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, Brisbane, AU, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39059-3_2, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913678 (Accessed October 3, 2024)

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Created July 23, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021