Journal on Communications ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 88-95.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2018026

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Collision analysis of the GMR-2 cipher used in the satellite phone

Ruilin LI(),Jiao HU,Chaojing TANG   

  1. College of Electronic Science,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
  • Revised:2017-12-25 Online:2018-02-01 Published:2018-03-28
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61402515);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61702536)

Abstract:

A collision property analysis of the GMR-2 cipher used in the satellite phone was presented.By using the F-component as a bridge,the link between the difference of the key byte and the collision of the output ofFas well as the link between the collision of the output of F and the collision of keystream byte were analyzed,which finally revealed the relationship between the difference of the original key byte and the keystream collision.The theoretical analysis showed that for a random frame number,a special chosen key pair could lead to a keystream collision with a high probability,when the key pair has only one byte difference in which the most significant 4 bit of the difference was equal to the last significant 4 bit.The experimental result shows that the keystream collision probability is 2?8.248,which is far higher than the ideal collision probability 2?120.This proves once again,that there exists serious potential security hazards in the GMR-2 cipher.

Key words: satellite phones, stream cipher, GMR-2, collision analysis

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