Complementing Feistel ciphers

Abstract

In this paper, we propose related-key differential distinguishers based on the complementation property of Feistel ciphers. We show that with relaxed requirements on the complementation, i.e. the property does not have to hold for all keys and the complementation does not have to be on all bits, one can obtain a variety of distinguishers. We formulate criteria sufficient for attacks based on the complementation property. To stress the importance of our findings we provide analysis of the full-round primitives: - For the hash mode of Camellia-128 without FL, FL-1 layers, differential multicollisions with 2112 time. - For GOST, practical recovery of the full key with 31 related keys and 238 time/data. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.