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On the Use of GF-Inversion as a Cryptographic Primitive

Aoki, Kazumaro
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Vaudenay, Serge  
2004
Selected Areas in Cryptography. SAC 2003
Selected Areas in Cryptography, 10th Annual International Workshop, SAC 2003

Inversion in Galois Fields is a famous primitive permutation for designing cryptographic algorithms e.g. for Rijndael because it has suitable differential and linear properties. Inputs and outputs are usually transformed by addition (e.g. XOR) to key bits. We call this construction the APA (Add-Permute-Add) scheme. In this paper we study its pseudorandomness in terms of k-wise independence. We show that the pairwise independence of the APA construction is related to the impossible differentials properties. We notice that inversion has many impossible differentials, so x --> 1/(x+a)+b is not pairwise independent. In 1998, Vaudenay proposed the random harmonic permutation h:x --> a/(x-b)+c. Although it is not perfectly 3-wise independent (despite what was originally claimed), we demonstrate in this paper that it is almost 3-wise independent. In particular we show that any distinguisher limited to three queries between this permutation and a perfect one has an advantage limited to 3/q where q is the field order. This holds even if the distinguisher has access to h-1. Finally, we investigate 4-wise independence and we suggest the cross-ratio as a new tool for cryptanalysis of designs involving inversion.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-24654-1_17
Author(s)
Aoki, Kazumaro
Vaudenay, Serge  
Date Issued

2004

Published in
Selected Areas in Cryptography. SAC 2003
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 3006

Start page

234

End page

247

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Selected Areas in Cryptography, 10th Annual International Workshop, SAC 2003

Ottawa, Canada

August 14-15

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January 19, 2007
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/239748
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