Nitin Kumar Sharma 0001

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2025 Improved key recovery attacks on reduced-round Salsa20
Sabyasachi Dey 0001, Gregor Leander, Nitin Kumar Sharma 0001
Des. Codes Cryptogr.3
2023 Enhanced Differential-Linear Attacks on Reduced Round ChaCha
abstract
We present numerous refinements to the previous differential-linear attacks on ChaCha in this study. Beierle et al. discovered a 3.5-round differential at CRYPTO 2020, which was based on the condition that suitable key-IV pairs are picked, which they termed as 'right pair'. They were able to refine their approach by doing so, but they also observed that the acquisition of a right pair requires an average of 25iterations. In our work, we propose a method for achieving the right pairs with the help of listing, so that the extra multiplication of 25in the overall complexity can be avoided. In addition, we present a tactical enhancement in 'Probabilistic Neutral Bit'- searching algorithm, a change in complexity computation and a novel attack strategy based on two input-output pairs. We employ them to lower the attack complexity from 2230.86to 2218.95for the 7-round ChaCha256. Furthermore, after almost ten years, we enhance the complexity of a 6-round 128-bit version of ChaCha (Shi et al: ICISC 2012) by more than 78 million times and for the first time, propose attacks on 7.25-round ChaCha256 and 6.5-round ChaCha128 with time complexities 2244.85and 2121.40respectively.
Sabyasachi Dey 0001, Hirendra Kumar Garai, Santanu Sarkar 0001, Nitin Kumar Sharma 0001
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory4
2022 Revamped Differential-Linear Cryptanalysis on Reduced Round ChaCha
Sabyasachi Dey 0001, Hirendra Kumar Garai, Santanu Sarkar 0001, Nitin Kumar Sharma 0001
EUROCRYPT (3)4