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Cryptanalysis of block-wise stream ciphers suitable for the protection of multimedia and ubiquitous systems

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In this paper we introduce a general framework of related-key attack on block-wise stream ciphers which are suitable for the protection of multimedia and ubiquitous systems. As a case study, we show how our cryptanalytic framework is applied to a block-wise stream cipher TWOPRIME: we construct various related-key differentials of TWOPRIME and use them to show that recovering related keys of TWOPRIME can be performed with a data complexity of 214 known plaintext blocks and a time complexity of 232 8-bit table lookups. We expect that our general framework for a related-key attack would be useful tool for analyzing many of block-wise stream ciphers.

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  1. ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), 138, Gajeongno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Deok Gyu Lee

  2. Division of e-Business, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyeong-dong, Masan, Kyungnam, Korea

    Jongsung Kim

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Seoul, 90 Cheonnong-Dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-743, Korea

    Jaechul Sung

  4. Department of Information & Communication Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, Korea

    Yang Sun Lee

  5. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Korea

    Seungmin Rho

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Lee, D.G., Kim, J., Sung, J. et al. Cryptanalysis of block-wise stream ciphers suitable for the protection of multimedia and ubiquitous systems. Telecommun Syst 44, 297–306 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-009-9255-9

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