Title
Security problems with improper implementations of improved FEA-M
Abstract
This paper reports security problems with improper implementations of an improved version of FEA-M (fast encryption algorithm for multimedia). It is found that an implementation-dependent differential chosen-plaintext attack or its chosen-ciphertext counterpart can reveal the secret key of the cryptosystem, if the involved (pseudo-)random process can be tampered (for example, through a public time service). The implementation-dependent differential attack is very efficient in complexity and needs only O(n^2) chosen plaintext or ciphertext bits. In addition, this paper also points out a minor security problem with the selection of the session key. In real implementations of the cryptosystem, these security problems should be carefully avoided, or the cryptosystem has to be further enhanced to work under such weak implementations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.jss.2006.05.002
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
DocType
Volume
random process,chosen ciphertext attack
Journal
80
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
The Journal of Systems & Software
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shujun Li11131116.82
Kwok-Tung Lo266266.15