Presentation 2023-03-13
Improvement of Linear Approximations in Differential Linear Analysis of Stream Cipher ChaCha
Atsuki Nagai, Atsuko Miyaji,
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Abstract(in English) ChaCha, a stream cipher, is the successor to Salsa20, which is also a stream cipher, and is the only cipher adopted in TLS 1.3. Therefore, the security analysis of ChaCha is one of the most important issues. In this study, we focus on the linear approximation of ChaCha required for differential-linear cryptanalysis and present a linear approximation that corrects errors in existing papers. We also generalized the linear approximation by using the corrected linear approximation. Then, we compared the theoretical and experimental values of the bias of the linear approximation. This clarifies the linear approximation obtained from the structure of ChaCha, and contributes to the construction of more secure cryptography.
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Keyword(in English) stream cipher / ChaCha / differential-linear cryptanalysis / linear approximation
Paper # ICSS2022-70
Date of Issue 2023-03-06 (ICSS)

Conference Information
Committee ICSS / IPSJ-SPT
Conference Date 2023/3/13(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Okinawaken Seinenkaikan
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Security, Trust, etc.
Chair Katsunari Yoshioka(Yokohama National Univ.)
Vice Chair Takahiro Kasama(NICT) / Akira Yamada(KDDI labs.)
Secretary Takahiro Kasama(Okayama Univ.) / Akira Yamada(Mitsubishi Electric)
Assistant Takeshi Sugawara(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yo Kanemoto(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security / Special Interest Group on Security Psychology and Trust
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Improvement of Linear Approximations in Differential Linear Analysis of Stream Cipher ChaCha
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) stream cipher
Keyword(2) ChaCha
Keyword(3) differential-linear cryptanalysis
Keyword(4) linear approximation
1st Author's Name Atsuki Nagai
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Atsuko Miyaji
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University/Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(Osaka Univ./JAIST)
Date 2023-03-13
Paper # ICSS2022-70
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) ICSS-422
Page pp.pp.133-138(ICSS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2023-03-06 (ICSS)