Truncated Differential Attacks: New Insights and 10-round Attacks on QARMA

ePrint Report: Truncated Differential Attacks: New Insights and 10-round Attacks on QARMA

Zahra Ahmadian, Akram Khalesi, Dounia M'foukh, Hossein Moghimi, María Naya-Plasencia

Truncated differential attacks were introduced by Knudsen in 1994 [1].
They are a well-known family that has arguably received less attention than some other variants of differential attacks. This paper gives some new insight on truncated differential attacks and provides the best-known attacks on both variants of the lightweight cipher QARMA, in the single tweak model, reaching for …

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