Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers

This paper introduces new methods of how to generate a suitable key-dependent substitution boxes (Sboxes) for use in lightweight block ciphers. An S-box is commonly used in block ciphers to provide the crucial property of nonlinearity. And one of the advantages of using key-dependent S-boxes is th...

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Main Authors: AlDabbagh, S.S.M., Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri, Zaba, Muhammad Reza
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author AlDabbagh, S.S.M.
Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri
Zaba, Muhammad Reza
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description This paper introduces new methods of how to generate a suitable key-dependent substitution boxes (Sboxes) for use in lightweight block ciphers. An S-box is commonly used in block ciphers to provide the crucial property of nonlinearity. And one of the advantages of using key-dependent S-boxes is that it is difficult for an attacker to perform attacks such as differential cryptanalysis on the cipher since the S-boxes are unknown. However, implementing such S-box incurs costs, which is one of the criteria that a lightweight block cipher has to minimize. It is therefore important to have a key-dependent S-box method which always outputs a cryptographically strong S-box and has a small footprint. In this paper, we propose novel methods on how to generate s-boxes based on the value of the secret key. Moreover, this research showed the intensive analysis for cost and security for each method.
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spelling iium-364432017-09-06T02:21:22Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/ Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers AlDabbagh, S.S.M. Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri Zaba, Muhammad Reza QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper introduces new methods of how to generate a suitable key-dependent substitution boxes (Sboxes) for use in lightweight block ciphers. An S-box is commonly used in block ciphers to provide the crucial property of nonlinearity. And one of the advantages of using key-dependent S-boxes is that it is difficult for an attacker to perform attacks such as differential cryptanalysis on the cipher since the S-boxes are unknown. However, implementing such S-box incurs costs, which is one of the criteria that a lightweight block cipher has to minimize. It is therefore important to have a key-dependent S-box method which always outputs a cryptographically strong S-box and has a small footprint. In this paper, we propose novel methods on how to generate s-boxes based on the value of the secret key. Moreover, this research showed the intensive analysis for cost and security for each method. Little Lion Scientific Islamabad Pakistan 2014-04-20 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/1/key-dependent_s-box.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/4/36443_Key-dependent%20s-box%20in%20lightweight%20block%20ciphers_SCOPUS.pdf AlDabbagh, S.S.M. and Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri and Zaba, Muhammad Reza (2014) Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 62 (2). pp. 554-559. ISSN 1992-8645 (Print) 1817-3195 (Online) http://www.jatit.org/volumes/Vol62No2/sixtysecond_2_2014.php
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
AlDabbagh, S.S.M.
Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri
Zaba, Muhammad Reza
Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title_full Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title_fullStr Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title_full_unstemmed Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title_short Key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
title_sort key-dependent s-box in lightweight block ciphers
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/1/key-dependent_s-box.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/36443/4/36443_Key-dependent%20s-box%20in%20lightweight%20block%20ciphers_SCOPUS.pdf