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Distinguishing Attack on the Secret-Prefix MAC Based on the 39-Step SHA-256

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2009)

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In this paper, we present the first distinguishing attack on the LPMAC based on step-reduced SHA-256. The LPMAC is the abbreviation of the secret-prefix MAC with the length prepended to the message before hashing and it’s a more secure version of the secret-prefix MAC. In [19], Wang et al. give the first distinguishing attack on HMAC/NMAC-MD5 without the related key, then they improve the techniques to give a distinguishing attack on the LPMAC based on 61-step SHA-1 in [23]. In this paper, we utilize the techniques in [23] combined with our differential path on step-reduced SHA-256 to distinguishing the LPMAC based on 39-step SHA-256 from the LPMAC with a random function. The complexity of our attack is about 2184.5 MAC queries.

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Yu, H., Wang, X. (2009). Distinguishing Attack on the Secret-Prefix MAC Based on the 39-Step SHA-256. In: Boyd, C., González Nieto, J. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02620-1_13

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