International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Name: Côme Berbain
Topic: Analyse et conception d\'algorithmes de chiffrement à flot
Category: secret-key cryptography

Description:

The primary goal of cryptography is to protect the confidentiality of data and communications. Stream ciphers is one of the two most popular families of symmetric encryption algorithms that allow to guaranty\r\nconfidentiality and to achieve high performances.

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In the first part of this thesis, we present different cryptanalysis techniques against stream ciphers: correlation\r\nattack against the stream cipher GRAIN, guess and determine attack against the BSG mechanism, algebraic attack against special\r\nkinds of non-linear feedback shift registers, and chosen IV attack against a reduced version of the stream cipher SALSA.

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In a second part, we focus on proofs of security for stream ciphers: we introduce the new algorithm QUAD and give some \r\nprovable security arguments in order to link its security to the conjectured intractability of Multivariate Quadratic problem. We also try to extend the security requirements of stream ciphers to the case where initialisation values (IV) are used: we present a construction which allows us\r\nto build a secure IV dependent stream cipher from a number generator and apply it to QUAD, which becomes the first IV dependent\r\nstream cipher with provable security arguments. We also present the algorithms DECIM and SOSEMANUK, to which we made\r\ndesign contributions.

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Finally in a third part, we present efficient software and hardware implementations of the QUAD algorithm.

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