Journal on Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8): 185-190.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2016168

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Meet-in-the-middle attacks on FOX block cipher

IRong-jia L,INChen-hui J   

  1. The Third College,PLA Information Engineering University,Zhengzhou 450002,China
  • Online:2016-08-25 Published:2016-09-01
  • Supported by:
    Foundation Item:The National Natural Science Foundation of China;Foundation Item:The National Natural Science Foundation of China

Abstract:

The security of the block cipher FOX against meet-in-the-middle attack was analyzed.Firstly,3-round meet-in-the-middle distinguishers was constructed and 6-round meet-in-the-middle attacks for FOX64 and FOX128 was proposed.The two attacks were beter attacks for 6-round FOX64 and FOX128,respectively.Secondly,the meet-in-the-middle distinguisher was extended of FOX128 to 4 rounds and proposed 7-round meet-in-the-middle attack combined with time/memory/data tradeoff.Compared to the currently known attacks on 7-round FOX128,The attack has a greater time and memory complexity,however the data complexity is much smaller.

Key words: block cipher, cryptanalysis, meet-in-the-middle attack, FOX

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