Innovations in permutation-based crypto
Event details
| Date | 25.05.2018 |
| Hour | 14:30 › 15:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Joan Daemen |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: Imagine there’s no block ciphers, it’s easy if you try:-) A (cryptographic) permutation can be thought of as a block cipher (like AES or DES) without a key (or with a fixed key if you prefer). During the SHA-3 competition it became clear that permutation-based hashing, e.g., by using the sponge construction, is superior to block-cipher based hashing (as in MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2). By including a key in the sponge input, it can readily be used for message authentication (MAC) and by exploiting the arbitrarily long sponge output even for stream encryption. The duplex variant of sponge widens the spectrum to, among other, authenticated encryption and reseedable pseudorandom generation and was adopted by a dozen submissions to the CAESAR competition for authenticated ciphers. The disadvantage of the sponge and duplex constructions is that they are inherently serial. To address this, we introduced a fully parallel counterpart of the sponge, called Farfalle and propose a brand new permutation called Xoodoo. Clearly, there is a lot going on in permutation-based crypto and this talk will get you up to date.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- LASEC