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In this paper, we present more powerful 6-round impossible differentials for large-block Rijndael-224 and Rijndael-256 than the ones used by Zhang et al. in ISC 2008. Using those, we can improve the previous impossible differential cryptanalysis of both 9-round Rijndael-224 and Rijndael-256. The improvement can lead to 10-round attack on Rijndael-256 as well. With 2198.1 chosen plaintexts, an attack is demonstrated on 9-round Rijndael-224 with 2195.2 encryptions and 2140.4 bytes memory. Increasing the data complexity to 2216 plaintexts, the time complexity can be reduced to 2130 encryptions and the memory requirements to 293.6 bytes. For 9-round Rijndael-256, we provide an attack requiring 2229.3 chosen plaintexts, 2194 encryptions, and 2139.6 bytes memory. Alternatively, with 2245.3 plaintexts, an attack with a reduced time of 2127.1 encryptions and a memory complexity of 290.9 bytes can be mounted. With 2244.2 chosen plaintexts, we can attack 10-round Rijndael-256 with 2253.9 encryptions and 2186.8 bytes of memory.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61073150), and in part by the Research Council K.U.Leuven: GOA TENSE, the IAP Program P6/26 BCRYPT of the Belgian State (Belgian Science Policy), and in part by the European Commission through the ICT program under contract ICT-2007-216676 ECRYPT II.
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Wang, Q., Gu, D., Rijmen, V., Liu, Y., Chen, J., Bogdanov, A. (2013). Improved Impossible Differential Attacks on Large-Block Rijndael. In: Kwon, T., Lee, MK., Kwon, D. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2012. ICISC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37682-5_10
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