Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of LiCi Block Cipher

Yongzhuang WEI; Jiali SHI; Lingchen LI

doi:10.11999/JEIT180729

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Yongzhuang WEI, Jiali SHI, Lingchen LI. Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of LiCi Block Cipher[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2019, 41(7): 1610-1617. doi: 10.11999/JEIT180729

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Yongzhuang WEI, Jiali SHI, Lingchen LI. Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of LiCi Block Cipher[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2019, 41(7): 1610-1617. doi: 10.11999/JEIT180729

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Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of LiCi Block Cipher

doi: 10.11999/JEIT180729

Yongzhuang WEI^{1, 2},
Jiali SHI^{2, 3
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Lingchen LI^{4, 5}

1.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004 ,China
2.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004 ,China
3.
Guangxi Colleges and University Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004 ,China
4.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
5.
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61572148, 61872103, 61561016), The Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (YCBZ2018051), Guilin University of Electrionic Technology Excellent Graduate Thesis Program (16YJPYSS12), The Innovation Project of Guilin University of Electrionic Technology Graduate Education (2018YJCX45)

Received Date: 2018-07-19
Rev Recd Date: 2018-10-29

Available Online: 2019-03-18

Publish Date: 2019-07-01

Abstract

Abstract

LiCi algorithm is a newly lightweight block cipher. Due to its new design idea adopted by Patil et al, it has the advantages of compact design, low energy consumption and less chip area, thus is is especially suitable for resource-constrained environments. Currently, its security receives extensively attention, and Patil et al. claimed that the 16-round reduced LiCi can sufficiently resist both differential attack and linear attack. In this paper, a new 10-round impossible differential distinguisher is constructed based on the differential characteristics of the S-box and the meet-in-the-middle technique. Moreover, on the basis of this distinguisher, a 16-round impossible differential attack on LiCi is proposed by respectively extending 3-round forward and backward via the key scheduling scheme. This attack requires a time complexity of about 2^83.08 16-round encryptions, a data complexity of about 2^59.76 chosen plaintexts, and a memory complexity of 2^76.76 data blocks, which illustrates that the 16-round LiCi cipher can not resist impossible differential attack.
- Lightweight block cipher,
- LiCi cipher,
- Impossible differential cryptanalysis,
- Differential characteristic

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