Description
In a recent series of papers, Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich (et al.) presented a number of related-key attacks on AES and reduced-round versions of AES. The most impressive of these were presented at Asiacrypt 2009: related-key attacks against the full AES-256 and AES-192. The publication of these attacks has led some people to question the security of AES.<br/> While we agree that the related-key attacks are valid attacks and they could have been avoided in the design, we give arguments why their practical relevance is limited.<br/> In this presentation we discuss the applicability of these attacks, and of related-key attacks in general. We model the access of the attacker to the key in the form of key access schemes and remind the listeners of the following two facts. First, as shown by Mihir Bellare and Tadayoshi Kohno, there are key access schemes that are inherently insecure. We call those key access schemes unsound and propose related-key attacks should only be considered with respect to sound key access schemes. Second, as shown by a.o. Eli Biham and Serge Vaudenay, even the presence of a sound key access scheme inevitably leads to erosion of security.
Next sessions
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Key Attack on the ACDGV Matrix Encryption Scheme
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Cryptography
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Module Learning With Errors and Structured Extrapolated Dihedral Cosets
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Cryptography
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