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Saturation Attack on the Block Cipher HIGHT

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Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2009)

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HIGHT is a block cipher with 64-bit block length and 128-bit key length, which was proposed by Hong et al. in CHES 2006 for extremely constrained environments such as RFID tags and sensor networks. In this paper, a new saturation attack on HIGHT is discussed. We first point out and correct an error in the 12-round saturation distinguishers given by the HIGHT proposers. And then two new 17-round saturation distinguishers are described. Finally, we present a 22-round saturation attack on HIGHT including full whitening keys with 262.04 chosen plaintexts and 2118.71 22-round encryptions.

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    Peng Zhang, Bing Sun & Chao Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

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Zhang, P., Sun, B., Li, C. (2009). Saturation Attack on the Block Cipher HIGHT. In: Garay, J.A., Miyaji, A., Otsuka, A. (eds) Cryptology and Network Security. CANS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10433-6_6

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