Title
A fault attack against the FOX cipher family
Abstract
Since its first introduction, differential fault analysis has proved to be one of the most effective techniques to break a cipher implementation. In this paper, we apply a fault attack to a generic implementation of the recently introduced FOX family of symmetric block ciphers (also known as Idea Nxt). We show the steps needed to mount an effective attack against FOX-64. Although the basic characteristics of this cipher are similar to those of AES, FOX uses a non-invertible key schedule which makes it necessary to use a different attack plan. We also estimate the number of faulty ciphertexts required to reveal the secret key. Our results can be easily extended to other variations of the cipher that use longer inputs and keys.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11889700_10
FDTC
Keywords
Field
DocType
differential fault analysis,fox cipher family,generic implementation,effective technique,non-invertible key schedule,different attack plan,effective attack,symmetric block cipher,fox family,fault attack,cipher implementation,block cipher
Transposition cipher,Weak key,Computer science,Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir attack,Running key cipher,Theoretical computer science,Stream cipher,Related-key attack,Stream cipher attack,Slide attack
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4236
0302-9743
3-540-46250-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Breveglieri, L.118716.43
Israel Koren21579175.07
P. Maistri320011.98