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Strengthening ACORN Authenticated Cipher with Cellular Automata

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Publisher : Conference International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry

Source : Conference International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry Pages 8-17 Publisher Springer, Cham

Keywords : ACORN, Differential Fault Attack ,Cellular Automata, PCA 90-150, Stream cipher, Authenticated encryption

Campus : Coimbatore

Center : TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security

Year : 2021

Abstract : The authenticated encryption (AE) scheme ACORN v3, a CAESAR competition finalist, has been shown to be particularly vulnerable against Differential Fault Attack (DFA), even more so than its previous version ACORN v2. In this paper, we analyse how fault attacks can be prevented in ACORN v3 by using cellular automata (CA). The good pseudorandom properties of CA are exploited and renders the ACORN v3 infeasible to perform fault attacks on. The Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA) 90-150 is effectively deployed to make ACORN cipher robust against DFA.

Cite this Research Publication : Strengthening ACORN Authenticated Cipher with Cellular Automata, Authors Jossy Joseph, Joseph Jacob, MK Abinshad, KN Ambili, Jimmy Jose Publication date 2020/12/2 Conference International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry Pages 8-17 Publisher Springer, Cham

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