Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University ›› 2013, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (07): 1131-1136.

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Differential Analysis of Stream Cipher Phelix

ZHANG Zhongya1,2,GUAN Jie1
  

  1. (1. Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450004, China; 2. Unit 71282 of the PLA, Luoyang 471000, Henan, China)
  • Received:2011-07-20 Online:2013-07-30 Published:2013-07-30

Abstract:

Phelix is a candidate algorithm for the ESTREAM stream cipher project. An algorithm was presented to solve a system of differential equations based on single-bit fault on XY=Z in this paper. Then a bit-oriented differential fault analysis of Phelix based on the algorithm was shown. Theoretically, the 256-bit working key can be obtained by using 652 bit-faults, with the computational complexity of O(220). The result shows that the stream cipher Phelix is vulnerable to differential fault analysis.
 

Key words: stream cipher, Phelix, differential equation, differential fault analysis

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