NewDES
| General | |
|---|---|
| Designers | Robert Scott |
| First published | 1985 |
| Cipher detail | |
| Key sizes | 120 bits |
| Block sizes | 64 bits |
| Rounds | 17 |
| Best public cryptanalysis | |
| A related-key attack succeeds with 232 known plaintexts | |
In cryptography, NewDES is a symmetric key block cipher. It was created in 1984–1985 by Robert Scott as a potential DES replacement.
Despite its name, it is not derived from DES and has quite a different structure. Its intended niche as a DES replacement has now mostly been filled by AES. The algorithm was revised with a modified key schedule in 1996 to counter a related-key attack; this version is sometimes referred to as NewDES-96.
In 2004, Scott posted some comments on sci.crypt reflecting on the motivation behind NewDES's design and what he might have done differently so as to make the cipher more secure.[1]
Algorithm
NewDES, unlike DES, has no bit-level permutations, making it easy to implement in software. All operations are performed on whole bytes. It is a product cipher, consisting of 17 rounds performed on a 64-bit data block and makes use of a 120-bit key.
In each round, subkey material is XORed with the 1-byte sub-blocks of data, then fed through an S-box, the output of which is then XORed with another sub-block of data. In total, 8 XORs are performed in each round. The S-box is derived from the United States Declaration of Independence (used as a nothing-up-my-sleeve number).
Each set of two rounds uses seven 1-byte subkeys, which are derived by splitting 56 bits of the key into bytes. The key is then rotated 56 bits for use in the next two rounds.
Cryptanalysis
Only a small amount of cryptanalysis has been published on NewDES. The designer showed that NewDES exhibits the full avalanche effect after seven rounds: every ciphertext bit depends on every plaintext bit and key bit.
NewDES has the same complementation property that DES has: namely, that if
then
where
is the bitwise complement of x. This means that the work factor for a brute force attack is reduced by a factor of 2. Eli Biham also noticed that changing a full byte in all the key and data bytes leads to another complementation property. This reduces the work factor by 28.
Biham's related-key attack can break NewDES with 233 chosen-key chosen plaintexts, meaning that NewDES is not as secure as DES.
John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, and David Wagner used related-key cryptanalysis to develop another attack on NewDES; it requires 232 known plaintexts and one related key.[2]
References
- ^ Robert Scott (2004-10-28). "newdes". Newsgroup: sci.crypt. Usenet: 418062d6.30341101@news.provide.net. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ^ Kelsey, John; Schneier, Bruce; Wagner, David (1997). "Related-key cryptanalysis of 3-WAY, Biham-DES, CAST, DES-X, NewDES, RC2, and TEA". In Han, Y.; Okamoto, T.; Qing, S. (eds.). Information and Communications Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1334. pp. 233–246. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.35.8112. doi:10.1007/BFb0028479. ISBN 978-3-540-63696-0. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- Scott, Robert (January 1985). "Wide Open Encryption Design Offers Flexible Implementations". Cryptologia. 9 (1): 75–91. doi:10.1080/0161-118591859799.
- Schneier, Bruce (1996). Applied Cryptography, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 306–308. ISBN 978-0-471-11709-4.
External links
- Scott, Robert (1996-03-02). "Revision of NEWDES". Newsgroup: sci.crypt. Usenet: 4hafm9$r51@condor.ic.net. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- NewDES source code implementations
