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Avalanche effect in improperly initialized CAESAR candidates [MEMICS 2016]

Authors: Martin Ukrop and Petr Švenda

Primary contact: Martin Ukrop mukrop@mail.muni.cz

Abstract: Cryptoprimitives rely on thorough theoretical background, but often lack basic usability features making them prone to unintentional misuse by developers. We argue that this is true even for the state-of-the-art designs. Analyzing 52 candidates of the current CAESAR competition has shown none of them have avalanche effect in authentication tag strong enough to work properly when partially misconfigured. Although not directly decreasing their security profile, this hints at their security usability being less than perfect.

  • Conference page: MEMICS 2016
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Bibtex (regular paper)😘* @misc{memics2016, author = {Martin Ukrop \and Petr Svenda}, title = {Avalanche effect in improperly initialized CAESAR candidates}, state = {forthcoming}, year = {2016}, }