Article: Parallelisable variants of Camellia and SMS4 block cipher: p-Camellia and p-SMS4 Journal: International Journal of Applied Cryptography (IJACT) 2013 Vol.3 No.1 pp.1 - 20 Abstract: We propose two parallelisable variants of Camellia and SMS4 block ciphers based on the n-cell GF-NLFSR. The n-cell generalised Feistel-non-linear feedback shift register (GF-NLFSR) structure (Choy et al., 2009a) is a generalised unbalanced Feistel network that can be considered as a generalisation of the outer function FO of the KASUMI block cipher. An advantage of this cipher over other n-cell generalised Feistel networks, e.g., SMS4 (Diffe and Ledin, 2008) and Camellia (Aokiet al., 2001), is that it is parallelisable for up to n rounds. In hardware implementations, the benefits translate to speeding up encryption by up to n times while consuming similar area and significantly less power. At the same time, n-cell GF-NLFSR structures offer similar proofs of security against differential cryptanalysis as conventional n-cell Feistel structures. In this paper, we prove security against differential, linear and boomerang attacks. We also show that the selected number of rounds are conservative enough to provide high security margin against other known attacks such as integral, impossible differential, higher order differential, interpolation, slide, XSL and related-key differential attacks. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

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Title: Parallelisable variants of Camellia and SMS4 block cipher: p-Camellia and p-SMS4

Authors: Huihui Yap; Khoongming Khoo; Axel Poschmann

Addresses: DSO National Laboratories, 20 Science Park Drive, 118230, Singapore; Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371, Singapore ' DSO National Laboratories, 20 Science Park Drive, 118230, Singapore; Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371, Singapore ' Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371, Singapore

Abstract: We propose two parallelisable variants of Camellia and SMS4 block ciphers based on the n-cell GF-NLFSR. The n-cell generalised Feistel-non-linear feedback shift register (GF-NLFSR) structure (Choy et al., 2009a) is a generalised unbalanced Feistel network that can be considered as a generalisation of the outer function FO of the KASUMI block cipher. An advantage of this cipher over other n-cell generalised Feistel networks, e.g., SMS4 (Diffe and Ledin, 2008) and Camellia (Aokiet al., 2001), is that it is parallelisable for up to n rounds. In hardware implementations, the benefits translate to speeding up encryption by up to n times while consuming similar area and significantly less power. At the same time, n-cell GF-NLFSR structures offer similar proofs of security against differential cryptanalysis as conventional n-cell Feistel structures. In this paper, we prove security against differential, linear and boomerang attacks. We also show that the selected number of rounds are conservative enough to provide high security margin against other known attacks such as integral, impossible differential, higher order differential, interpolation, slide, XSL and related-key differential attacks.

Keywords: generalised unbalanced Feistel network; GF-NLFSR; generalised Feistel NLFSR; nonlinear feedback shift register; Camellia; SMS4; block ciphers; encryption; security; differential cryptanalysis; cryptography; attacks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJACT.2013.053432

International Journal of Applied Cryptography, 2013 Vol.3 No.1, pp.1 - 20

Accepted: 10 Mar 2012
Published online: 04 Sep 2014 *

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