The security of CIKS-128 block cipher under related-key differential attack was studied.A related-key differential of high probability was constructed with the differential information leakages in the structure of DDPs and nonlinear functions.By proposing a corresponding key recovery attack based on the related-key differential
the master key of 192 bits was recovered.The rest 64 bits of the master key could be obtained by exhaustive search.The computational complexity
the data complexity and the memory complexity are 2
77
CIKS-128 block cipher encryptions
2
77
chosen-plaintexts and 2
25.4
bytes of storage resources
respectively.Analysis results show that CIKS-128 is unsafe under related-key differential attack.