MILP-aided Cryptanalysis of the FUTURE Block Cipher

ePrint Report: MILP-aided Cryptanalysis of the FUTURE Block Cipher

Murat Burhan İlter, Ali Aydin Selcuk

FUTURE is a recently proposed, lightweight block cipher. It has an AES-like, SP-based, 10-round encryption function, where, unlike most other lightweight constructions, the diffusion layer is based on an MDS matrix. Despite its relative complexity, it has a remarkable hardware performance due to careful design decisions.


In this paper, we conducted a MILP-based analysis of the cipher, where we incorporated exact probabilities rather than just …

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