Biclique attack on the full HIGHT

Deukjo Hong, Bonwook Koo, Daesung Kwon

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Abstract

HIGHT is a lightweight block cipher proposed at CHES 2006 and included in ISO/IEC 18033-3. In this paper, we apply recently proposed biclique cryptanalysis to attack HIGHT. We show that bicliques can be constructed for 8 rounds in HIGHT, and those are used to recover the 128-bit key for the full rounds of HIGHT with the computational complexity of 2 126.4, faster than exhaustive search. This is the first single-key attack result for the full HIGHT.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2011 - 14th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers
Pages365-374
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event14th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2011 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 30 Nov 20112 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7259 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2011
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period30/11/112/12/11

Keywords

  • Biclique
  • Cryptanalysis
  • HIGHT

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