ZHANG Wen-ying, LIU Xiang-zhong. An Related-Key Meet-in-the-Middle Algebraic Attack on the NLFSR Based Block Cipher KTANTAN32[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2012, 40(10): 2097-2100.
DOI:
ZHANG Wen-ying, LIU Xiang-zhong. An Related-Key Meet-in-the-Middle Algebraic Attack on the NLFSR Based Block Cipher KTANTAN32[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2012, 40(10): 2097-2100. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2012.10.032.
An Related-Key Meet-in-the-Middle Algebraic Attack on the NLFSR Based Block Cipher KTANTAN32
we analyze the algebraic weakness of KTANTAN32.Using related-key and meet-in-the-middle match attack
by algebraic deducing
we get some single-variable linear equations on some key bits and can recover these key bits instantly by solving these algebraic equations one by one.We can recover the key bits with only one pairs of related-keys
2 plaintext/ciphertext pairs.The time complexity and the memory complexity are all negligible.Which indicates that the KTANTAN32 is a very weaker cryptographic system.We conclude that using the NFSR update mode and the linearity of the key schedule together is the fatal weakness of KTANTANs.In order to prevent the cipher from meet in the middle and match attack
it is important to introduce some nonlinearity in the key schedule of this block cipher.