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Dynamic MDS Matrices for Substantial Cryptographic Strength
Ciphers get their strength from the mathematical functions of confusion and
diffusion, also known as substitution and permutation. These were the basics of
classical cryptography and they are still the basic part of modern ciphers. In
block ciphers diffusion is achieved by the use of Maximum Distance Separable
(MDS) matrices. In this paper we present some methods for constructing dynamic
(and random) MDS matrices.Comment: Short paper at WISA'10, 201
Matrix Power S-box Analysis
* Work supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation.Construction of symmetric cipher S-box based on matrix power function and dependant on key is
analyzed. The matrix consisting of plain data bit strings is combined with three round key matrices using
arithmetical addition and exponent operations. The matrix power means the matrix powered by other matrix. This
operation is linked with two sound one-way functions: the discrete logarithm problem and decomposition problem.
The latter is used in the infinite non-commutative group based public key cryptosystems. The mathematical
description of proposed S-box in its nature possesses a good “confusion and diffusion” properties and contains
variables “of a complex type” as was formulated by Shannon. Core properties of matrix power operation are
formulated and proven. Some preliminary cryptographic characteristics of constructed S-box are calculated
Revisiting LFSMs
Linear Finite State Machines (LFSMs) are particular primitives widely used in
information theory, coding theory and cryptography. Among those linear
automata, a particular case of study is Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs)
used in many cryptographic applications such as design of stream ciphers or
pseudo-random generation. LFSRs could be seen as particular LFSMs without
inputs.
In this paper, we first recall the description of LFSMs using traditional
matrices representation. Then, we introduce a new matrices representation with
polynomial fractional coefficients. This new representation leads to sparse
representations and implementations. As direct applications, we focus our work
on the Windmill LFSRs case, used for example in the E0 stream cipher and on
other general applications that use this new representation.
In a second part, a new design criterion called diffusion delay for LFSRs is
introduced and well compared with existing related notions. This criterion
represents the diffusion capacity of an LFSR. Thus, using the matrices
representation, we present a new algorithm to randomly pick LFSRs with good
properties (including the new one) and sparse descriptions dedicated to
hardware and software designs. We present some examples of LFSRs generated
using our algorithm to show the relevance of our approach.Comment: Submitted to IEEE-I
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