Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001, Volume 1978/2001, 273-283, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44706-7_19

Provable Security against Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis for the SPN Structure

Seokhie Hong, Sangjin Lee, Jongin Lim, Jaechul Sung, Donghyeon Cheon and Inho Cho

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Abstract

In the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) structure, it is very important to design a diffusion layer to construct a secure block cipher against differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. The purpose of this work is to prove that the SPN structure with a maximal diffusion layer provides a provable security against differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis in the sense that the probability of each differential (respectively linear hull) is bounded by p n (respectively q n), where p (respectively q) is the maximum differential (respectively liner hull) probability of n S-boxes used in the substitution layer.We will also give a provable security for the SPN structure with a semi-maximal diffusion layer against differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis.
The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Korea Research Foundation made in the program year of 1998.

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