• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.435-451
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• 2019

Impossible differential cryptanalysis is an essential cryptanalytic technique and its key point is whether there is an impossible differential path. The main factor of influencing impossible differential cryptanalysis is the length of the rounds of the impossible differential trail because the attack will be more close to the real encryption algorithm with the number becoming longer. We provide the upper bound of the longest impossible differential trails of several important block ciphers. We first analyse the national standard of the Russian Federation in 2015, Kuznyechik, which utilizes the 16-byte LFSR to achieve the linear transformation. We conclude that there is no any 3-round impossible differential trail of the Kuznyechik without the consideration of the specific S-boxes. Then we ascertain the longest impossible differential paths of several other important block ciphers by using the matrix method which can be extended to many other block ciphers. As a result, we show that, unless considering the details of the S-boxes, there is no any more than or equal to 5-round, 7-round and 9-round impossible differential paths for KLEIN, Midori64 and MIBS respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.107-115
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• 2004

SHACAL-2 is a 256 bit block cipher with various key sizes based on the hash function SHA-2. Recently, it was recommended as one of the NESSIE selections. UP to now, no security flaws have been found in SHACAL-2. In this paper, we discuss the security of SHACAL-2 against an impossible differential attack. We propose two types of 14 round impossible characteristics and using them we attack 30 round SHACAL-2 with 512 bit 18y. This attack requires 744 chosen plaintexs and has time complexity of 2$^{495.1}$ 30 round SHACAL-2 encryptions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.37-44
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• 2008

The 128-bit block cipher SMS4 which is used in WAPI, the Chinese WALN national standard, uses a 128-bit user key with the number of 32 rounds. In this paper, we present a differential attack on the 20-round SMS4 using 16-round differential characteristic. This attack requires $2^{126}$ chosen plaintexts with $2^{105.85}$ 20-round SMS4 decryptions. This result is better than any previously known cryptanalytic results on SMS4 in terms of the numbers of attacked rounds.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.85-96
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• 2001

This paper describes saturation attacks on reduced-round versions of SKIPJACK. To begin with, we will show how to construct a 16-round distinguisher which distinguishes 16 rounds of SKIPJACK from a random permutation. The distinguisher is used to attack on 18(5~22) and 23(5~27) rounds of SKIPJACK. We can also construct a 20-around distinguisher based on the 16-round distinguisher. This distinguisher is used to attack on 22(1~22) and 27(1~27) rounds of SKIPJACK. The 80-bit user key of 27 rounds of SKIPJACK can be recovered with $2^{50}$ chosen plaintexts and 3\cdot 2^{75}$ encryption times.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.285-288
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• 2001

In this paper a design of cryptographic coprocessor which implements AES Rijndael algorithm is described. To achieve average throughput of 1 round per 5 clocks, subround pipelined scheme is applied. To apply the coprocessor to various applications, three key sizes such as 128, 192, 256 bits are supported. The cryptographic coprocessor is designed using 0.25${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS technology and consists of about 36, 000 gates. Its peak performance is about 512 Mbps encryption or decryption rate under 200 Mhz clock frequency and 128-bit key ECB mode(AES-128ECB).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.325-336
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• 2020

Nonlinear Invariant Attack is an attack that should be considered when constructing lightweight block ciphers with relatively simple key schedule. A shortcut to prove a block cipher's resistance against nonlinear invariant attack is checking the smallest dimension of linear layer-invariant linear subspace which contains all known differences between round keys is equal to the block size. In this paper, we presents the following results. We identify the structure and number of optimal bit-permutations which require only one known difference between round keys for a designer to show that the corresponding block cipher is resistant against nonlinear invariant attack. Moreover, we show that PRESENT-like block ciphers need at least two known differences between round keys by checking all PRESENT-like bit-permutations. Additionally, we verify that the variants of PRESENT-like bit-permutations requiring the only two known differences between round keys do not conflict with the resistance against differential attack by comparing the best differential trails. Finally, through the distribution of the invariant factors of all bit-permutations that maintain BOGI logic with GIFT S-box, GIFT-variant block ciphers require at least 8 known differences between round keys for the resistance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.3A
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• pp.399-405
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• 2000

In this paper, we deal with block cipher algorithm IDEA(international data encryption algorithm), previously known as typical block cipher system. first of all, analysing key scheduler we classify the key sequences with the used key bit and the unused key bits in each round. with this properties we propose the two method, which are differential analysis using differences of plaintext pairs and linear analysis using LSB bit of plaintexts and key sequences.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.55-69
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• 1992

There have been several studies on the key issues in information systems (IS) management. This study replicates the Society for Information Management (SIM) survey done in U.S.A. to investigate the key issues in IS management in Korea. This survey focused especially on the professions in financial institutions. A three-round Delphi method was employed to collect the opinions of participants and obtain a reasonable level of consensus about the key IS management issues of financial institutions in Korea. The number one issue identified was top management support, followed by recruitment and development of IS human resources. This article also compares the key IS management issues of financial institutions and those of manufacturing industries in Korea.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1047-1062
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• 2022

Differential power analysis (DPA) is disturbed by ghost peaks. There is a phenomenon that the mean absolute difference (MAD) value of the wrong key is higher than the correct key. We propose a compressed key guessing space (CKGS) scheme to solve this problem and analyze the AES algorithm. The DPA based on this scheme is named CKGS-DPA. Unlike traditional DPA, the CKGS-DPA uses two power leakage points for a combined attack. The first power leakage point is used to determine the key candidate interval, and the second is used for the final attack. First, we study the law of MAD values distribution when the attack point is AddRoundKey and explain why this point is not suitable for DPA. According to this law, we modify the selection function to change the distribution of MAD values. Then a key-related value screening algorithm is proposed to obtain key information. Finally, we construct two key candidate intervals of size 16 and reduce the key guessing space of the SubBytes attack from 256 to 32. Simulation experimental results show that CKGS-DPA reduces the power traces demand by 25% compared with DPA. Experiments performed on the ASCAD dataset show that CKGS-DPA reduces the power traces demand by at least 41% compared with DPA.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05d
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• pp.955-958
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• 2002

암호화를 위한 블록간의 연산 모드에서 어떤 연산 모드를 사용하는가에 따라 평문, 암호문 또는 키 추측 등에 많은 영향을 주게 된다. 본 논문에서는 여러 가지 블록 암호 연산 모드에 대해 알아보고, 다음 블록에 대한 키 정보의 암호화 강도를 효율적으로 높일 수 있는 RFB(Round key FeedBack) 운영 모드를 제안한다.