• DocumentCode
    593204
  • Title

    Cryptanalysis on PHOTON hash function using cube attack

  • Author

    Chia-Yu Lu ; You-Wei Lin ; Shang-Ming Jen ; Jar-Ferr Yang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    14-16 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    278
  • Lastpage
    281
  • Abstract
    The lightweight hash function PHOTON has shown excellent hardware compactness which almost reaches the theoretical optimum and brings benefits for on-tag applications. Unlike cryptanalysis which tries to find collisions or build distinguishers on PHOTON, we apply cube attack for secret recovery of PHOTON. We focus on 1 to 3 round of PHOTON-128/16/16 in our experiments. Using cube attack, we show at least half of the message bits can be recovered. When more powerful computing capability is used, it is possible to recover more bits of the message in the same number of PHOTON rounds.
  • Keywords
    cryptography; PHOTON hash function; cryptanalysis; cube attack; message bits; secret recovery; Cryptography; Data preprocessing; Linearity; Photonics; Polynomials; PHOTON; RFID; cube attack; hash function;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Security and Intelligence Control (ISIC), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Yunlin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2587-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIC.2012.6449760
  • Filename
    6449760