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블록 암호를 설계할 때, 설계자는 주로 차분 특성 확률의 상한을 이용하여 라운드 수를 결정한다. 라운드 수는 블록 암호의 성능에 영향을 미치므로, 더 적은 라운드를 갖기 위해 차분 특성 확률의 상한을 정밀하게 계산하는 것이 중요하다. 이전까지의 활성 S-box의 최소 개수를 탐색하는 방법들은 비선형 연산과 선형 연산을 각각 제약식으로 구성하여 차분 특성 확률의 상한을 계산하였다. 하지만 선형 연산이 비선형 연산에 의존적으로 선택되는 BOGI 설계전략(Bad-Output Good-Input Design Strategy)의 경우 이전 탐색방법으로 구한 상한은 정밀하지 않을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 BOGI 전략의 성질을 이용하여 기존의 방법보다 더 정밀한 차분 특성 확률의 상한을 구하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 이 방법을 이용하여 구한 상한의 타당성을 수학적으로 증명한다. 제안한 방법을 BOGI가 사용된 GIFT-64와 GIFT-128에 각각 적용하여 9라운드까지 차분 특성 확률의 상한을 탐색하였다. GIFT-64의 7라운드와 GIFT-128의 9라운드에 대해 기존의 방법을 적용하면 차분 특성 확률의 상한이 각각 2^-18.395와 2^-26.885이었으나, 제안한 방법을 적용하면 각각 2^-19.81과 2^-28.3으로 더 정밀하게 계산된다.

The upper bound of differential characteristic probability is mainly used to determine the number of rounds when constructing a block cipher. As the number of rounds affects the performance of block cipher, it is critical to evaluate the tight upper bound in the constructing process. In order to calculate the upper bound of differential characteristic probability, the previous searching methods for minimum number of active S-boxes constructed constraint equations for non-linear operations and linear operations, independently. However, in the case of BOGI design strategy, where linear operation is dependent on non-linear operation, the previous methods may present the less tight upper bound. In this paper, we exploit the properties of BOGI strategy to propose a new method to evaluate a tighter upper bound of differential characteristic probability than previous ones. Additionally, we mathematically proved the validity of our method. Our proposed method was applied to GIFT-64 and GIFT-128, which are based on BOGI strategy, and the upper bounds of differential characteristic probability were derived until 9 round. Previously, the upper bounds of differential characteristic probability for 7-round GIFT-64 and 9-round GIFT-128 were 2^-18.395 and 2^-26.885, respectively, while we show that the upper bounds of differential characteristic probability are more tight as 2^-19.81 and 2^-28.3, respectively.

Maintaining the confidentiality of data during communication has always been a prime concern of many researchers. Several encryption mechanisms have been developed in order to protect the secret data from the access of unauthorized users. Encryption can be thought of as a set of instruction used for conversion of data from a readable state to nonsense form. An encryption scheme is said to be effective if it provides high security, low computational time and high brute force search time for hackers. This paper is an effort to compare all the text based encryption schemes mentioned in literature. These schemes are implemented in MATLAB-2010 and their efficacy is compared based on various performance metrics such as time complexity, Correlation, Key sensitivity analysis, Differential attack analysis and Entropy. These results can be fruitful for researchers working in this direction.

Recently, several chaotic based image encryption schemes have been proposed, each of them has its own strengths and limitations more or less in terms of security level and computational speed. In this paper, a novel approach for image encryption based on a 2-D Zaslavskii map and Pseudo Hadmard transform is proposed. The encryption process is composed of two stages, i.e. permutation and diffusion. The permutation is achieved by scrambling rows and columns using chaotic values. This stage substantially reduces the correlation between neighboring pixels. During diffusion, the avalanche effect is achieved with 2-D Pseudo Hadmard transforms followed by diffusion in two directions (forward and backward) with multiple additions and xor operations. This stage ensures resistance against differential attacks. The security and performance of the proposed method is analyzed thoroughly by using key-sensitivity, key-space, statistical, entropy, differential and performance analysis. The proposed scheme achieves the required level of security with only one round of encryption operation. Hence the proposed method is computationally fast.

In this paper, we first investigate the side channel analysis attack resistance of various FPGA hardware implementations of the ARIA block cipher. The analysis is performed on an FPGA test board dedicated to side channel attacks. Our results show that an unprotected implementation of ARIA allows one to recover the secret key with a low number of power or electromagnetic measurements. We also present a masking countermeasure and analyze its second-order side channel resistance by using various suitable preprocessing functions. Our experimental results clearly confirm that second-order differential side channel analysis attacks also remain a practical threat for masked hardware implementations of ARIA.