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Collision Attacks against CAESAR Candidates

Abstract

In this paper we study authenticated encryption algorithms inspired by the OCB mode (Offset Codebook). These algorithms use secret offsets (masks derived from a whitening key) to turn a block cipher into a tweakable block cipher, following the XE or XEX construction. OCB has a security proof up to 2 n/2 queries, and a matching forgery attack was described by Ferguson, where the main step of the attack recovers the whitening key. In this work we study recent authenticated en-cryption algorithms inspired by OCB, such as Marble, AEZ, and COPA. While Ferguson's attack is not applicable to those algorithms, we show that it is still possible to recover the secret mask with birthday complexity. Recovering the secret mask easily leads to a forgery attack, but it also leads to more devastating attacks, with a key-recovery attack against Marble and AEZ v2 and v3 with birthday complexity. For Marble, this clearly violates the security claims of full n-bit security. For AEZ, this matches the security proof, but we believe it is nonetheless a quite undesirable property that collision attacks allow to recover the master key, and more robust designs would be desirable. Our attack against AEZ is generic and independent of the internal permutation (in particular, it still works with the full AES), but the key-recovery is specific to the key derivation used in AEZ v2 and v3. Against Marble, the forgery attack is generic, but the key-recovery exploits the structure of the E permutation (4 AES rounds). In particular, we introduce a novel cryptanalytic method to attack 3 AES rounds followed by 3 inverse AES rounds, which can be of independent interest.
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hal-01102031 , version 1 (11-01-2015)
hal-01102031 , version 2 (13-01-2015)
hal-01102031 , version 3 (14-12-2015)

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Thomas Fuhr, Gaëtan Leurent, Valentin Suder. Collision Attacks against CAESAR Candidates. Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2015 - Part II, Apr 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria. pp.510, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_21⟩. ⟨hal-01102031v3⟩

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