• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.617-628
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• 2022

Ascon is one of the final round candidates of the NIST lightweight cryptography contest, which has been underway since 2015, and supports hash modes Ascon-Hash and Ascon-Xof. In this paper, we develop a MILP model for collision attack on the Ascon-Hash and search for a differential trail that can be used in a quantum setting through the model. In addition, we present an algorithm that allows an attacker who can use a quantum computer to find a quantum free-start collision attack of 3-round Ascon-Hash using the discovered differential trail. This attack is meaningful in that it is the first to analyze a collision attack on Ascon-Hash in a quantum setting.