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SKINNY is a lightweight tweakable block cipher, which was proposed at CRYPTO 2016. This paper presents an optimized brute force attack on full SKINNY using biclique attack with partial matching and precomputation. The results show that full round SKINNY64/64 is not secure against balanced biclique attack, the data complexity is \(2^{48}\), and the time complexity is \(2^{62.92}\). That is a very tiny advantage against brute force attack. Furthermore, an unbalanced biclique attack is considered, which improves the time complexity to \(2^{62.82}\). Moreover, in order to be immune to biclique attack, the round of SKINNY64/64 needs to be increased by 4 rounds to 36 rounds. Other versions of SKINNY do not have full round biclique attack owing to more encryption rounds.
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We would like to thank anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions. The research presented in this paper is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB338002) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61272476, 61672509 and 61232009).
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Zheng, Y., Wu, W. (2017). Biclique Attack of Block Cipher SKINNY. In: Chen, K., Lin, D., Yung, M. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology. Inscrypt 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10143. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54705-3_1
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