Cryptanalytic Time/Memory/Data Tradeoffs for Stream Ciphers

In 1980 Hellman introduced a general technique for breaking arbitrary block ciphers with N possible keys in time T and memory M related by the tradeoff curve TM2 = N2 for 1 T N. Recently, Babbage and Golic pointed out that a different TM = N tradeoff attack for 1 T D is applicable to stream ciphers, where D is the amount of output data available to the attacker. In this paper we show that a combination of the two approaches has an improved time/memory/data tradeoff for stream ciphers of the form TM2 D2 = N2 for any D2 T N. In addition, we show that stream ciphers with low sampling resistance have tradeoff attacks with fewer table lookups and a wider choice of parameters.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ASIACRYPT
• Authors: Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir
• Keywords: Arbitrary Block Ciphers, ASIACRYPT 2000, Cryptology, Stream Ciphers, Tradeoff Attacks