Publications related to Birthday attack

Near Collision Attack Against Grain V1

Subhadeep Banik, Willi Meier, Daniel Patrick Collins

A near collision attack against the Grain v1 stream cipher was proposed by Zhang et al. in Eurocrypt 18. The attack uses the fact that two internal states of the stream cipher with very low hamming distance between them, produce similar keystream sequences ...

2023

PAE: Towards More Efficient and BBB-Secure AE from a Single Public Permutation

Ritam Bhaumik

Four recent trends have emerged in the evolution of authenticated encryption schemes: (1) Regarding simplicity, the adoption of public permutations as primitives allows for sparing a key schedule and the need for storing round keys; (2) using the sums of p ...

Springer2023

Towards Efficient LPN-Based Symmetric Encryption

Serge Vaudenay, Sonia Mihaela Bogos, Dario Korolija, Thomas Locher

Due to the rapidly growing number of devices that need to communicate securely, there is still significant interest in the development of efficient encryption schemes. It is important to maintain a portfolio of different constructions in order to enable a ...

Springer International Publishing AG2021

On the Effectiveness of Time Travel to Inject COVID-19 Alerts

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux

Digital contact tracing apps allow to alert people who have been in contact with people who may be contagious. The Google/Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) system is based on Bluetooth proximity estimation. It has been adopted by many countries around the ...

Springer, Cham2021

QAIR: Practical Query-efficient Black-Box Attacks for Image Retrieval

Shaokai Ye, Yuan He, Hang Su, Jinfeng Li

We study the query-based attack against image retrieval to evaluate its robustness against adversarial examples under the black-box setting, where the adversary only has query access to the top-1 ranked unlabeled images from the database. Compared with que ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Cryptanalysis of LowMC instances using single plaintext/ciphertext pair

Serge Vaudenay, Subhadeep Banik, Fatma Betül Durak, Khashayar Barooti

Arguably one of the main applications of the LowMC family ciphers is in the post-quantum signature scheme PICNIC. Although LowMC family ciphers have been studied from a cryptanalytic point of view before, none of these studies were directly concerned with ...

2020

Beyond Conventional Security in Sponge-Based Authenticated Encryption Modes

Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic

The Sponge function is known to achieve 2c/2 security, where c is its capacity. This bound was carried over to its keyed variants, such as SpongeWrap, to achieve a min{2c/2,2 kappa} security bound, with kappa the key length. Similarly, many CAESAR competit ...

SPRINGER2019

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

2018

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

IEEE2018

Cryptanalysis of Enhanced MORE

Serge Vaudenay, Damian Vizár

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been among the most popular research topics of the last decade. While the bootstrapping-based, public key cryptosystems that follow Gentry's original design are getting more and more efficient, their performance is st ...

2018

The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

While machine learning is going through an era of celebrated success, concerns have been raised about the vulnerability of its backbone: stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recent approaches have been proposed to ensure the robustness of distributed SGD aga ...

2018

On Secure Cloud Computing for Genomic Data: From Storage to Analysis

Zhicong Huang

Although privacy is generally considered to be the right of an individual or group to control information about themselves, such a right has become challenging to protect in the digital era, this is exemplified by the case of cloud-based genomic computing. ...

EPFL2018

Breaking The FF3 Format-Preserving Encryption Standard Over Small Domains

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a Format-Preserving Encryption standard accepting two Feistel structure based schemes called FF1 and FF3. Particularly, FF3 is a tweakable block cipher based on an 8-round Feistel ...

2017

Breaking the FF3 Format Preserving Encryption

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

The NIST standard FF3 scheme (also known as BPS scheme) is a tweakable block cipher based on a 8-round Feistel Network. We break it with a practical attack. Our attack exploits the bad domain separation in FF3 design. The attack works with chosen plaintext ...

2017

Long-Term Spectral Statistics for Voice Presentation Attack Detection

Mathew Magimai Doss, Sébastien Marcel, Hannah Muckenhirn

Automatic speaker verification systems can be spoofed through recorded, synthetic or voice converted speech of target speakers. To make these systems practically viable, the detection of such attacks, referred to as presentation attacks, is of paramount in ...

2017

Some Cryptanalytic Results on Lizard

Subhadeep Banik

Lizard is a lightweight stream cipher proposed by Hamann, Krause and Meier in IACR ToSC 2017. It has a Grain-like structure with two state registers of size 90 and 31 bits. The cipher uses a 120 bit secret key and a 64 bit IV. The authors claim that Lizard ...

2017

Cryptanalysis of a Homomorphic Encryption Scheme

Serge Vaudenay, Sonia Mihaela Bogos, John Gaspoz

Homomorphic encryption allows to make specific operations on private data which stays encrypted. While applications such as cloud computing require to have a practical solution, the encryption scheme must be secure. In this article, we detail and analyze i ...

2016

Improved Masking for Tweakable Blockciphers with Applications to Authenticated Encryption

Robert Granger, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic

A popular approach to tweakable blockcipher design is via masking, where a certain primitive (a blockcipher or a permutation) is preceded and followed by an easy-to-compute tweak-dependent mask. In this work, we revisit the principle of masking. We do so a ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

GenoGuard: Protecting Genomic Data against Brute-Force Attacks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Erman Ayday, Zhicong Huang, Ari Juels

Secure storage of genomic data is of great and increasing importance. The scientific community's improving ability to interpret individuals' genetic materials and the growing size of genetic database populations have been aggravating the potential conseque ...

2015

Smashing WEP in A Passive Attack

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux, Pouyan Sepehrdad, Petr Susil

In this paper, we report extremely fast and optimised active and passive attacks against the old IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol WEP. This was achieved through a huge amount of theoretical and experimental analysis (capturing WiFi packets), ref ...

2013