Title
Search space reduction of asynchrony immune cellular automata
Abstract
We continue the study of asynchrony immunity in cellular automata (CA), which can be considered as a generalization of correlation immunity in the case of vectorial Boolean functions. The property could have applications as a countermeasure for side-channel attacks in CA-based cryptographic primitives, such as S-boxes and pseudorandom number generators. We first give some theoretical results on the properties that a CA rule must satisfy in order to meet asynchrony immunity, like central permutivity. Next, we perform an exhaustive search of all asynchrony immune CA rules of neighborhood size up to 5, leveraging on the discovered theoretical properties to greatly reduce the size of the search space.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11047-020-09788-1
Natural Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cellular automata, Cryptography, Asynchrony immunity, Correlation immunity, Nonlinearity, Side-channel attacks, Permutivity
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1567-7818
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Mariot14711.35
Luca Manzoni248855.19
alberto dennunzio331838.17