Exploiting Weak Diffusion of Gimli: Improved Distinguishers and Preimage Attacks

The Gimli permutation proposed in CHES 2017 was designed for cross-platform performance. One main strategy to achieve such a goal is to utilize a sparse linear layer (Small-Swap and Big-Swap), which occurs every two rounds. In addition, the round constant addition occurs every four rounds and only...

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Main Authors: Fukang Liu, Takanori Isobe, Willi Meier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2021-03-01
Series:IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
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Online Access:https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8837