Square and boomerang attacks analysis of diffusion property of 3D-AES block cipher

• Published in: 2016 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC-FSKD 2016
• Main Author: Ariffin S.; Hisan N.A.M.; Arshad S.; Bakar S.H.S.A.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84997615803&doi=10.1109%2fFSKD.2016.7603290&partnerID=40&md5=9eea735649e37f23e782fc2e52c9a40d

The antigen-antibody interaction, somatic hyper mutation and protein structural features in immune systems have been selected as inspired approach in designing the new block cipher algorithm called 3D-AES. However, these computation elements from immune systems have not proved yet whether it can be successfully applied and satisfies with Shannon's diffusion property in designing a new block cipher algorithm. This paper introduces two different types of attacks on the proposed block cipher. This paper measures and analyses the diffusion property of the block cipher by square attack and boomerang attack. It also discussed the best possible diffusion and described how it is relevant for chosen plaintext attack and conventional non related-key attacks based on the experiment done in the contact of the wide trail strategy family. © 2016 IEEE.