Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 180-184.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.06.023

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3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack on block cipher TWIS

Ya-fei ZHENG,Hong-ru WEI   

  1. School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2014-06-25 Published:2017-06-29
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Oriented Award Foundation for Science and Technological Innovation, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Abstract:

To do further analysis of the security of lightweight block cipher TWIS, 3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack was applied to 10-round TWIS without the final whitening. Based on the weakness in the key schedule of TWIS:its ac-tual key size was only 62-bit and the confusion speed of the initial key was rather slow, the time complexity to recover the whole 62-bit key of 10-round TWIS was 245, and the data complexity was low enough with only one known plain-text-ciphertext pair. The result shows that block cipher TWIS is not secure under 3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack.

Key words: block cipher, TWIS, meet-in-the-middle attack, complexity

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