Impossible Boomerang Attacks Revisited Applications to Deoxys-BC, Joltik-BC and SKINNY

• Published in: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology Vol. 2024; no. 2; pp. 254 - 295
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jianing, Wang, Haoyang, Tang, Deng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 18.06.2024

The impossible boomerang (IB) attack was first introduced by Lu in his doctoral thesis and subsequently published at DCC in 2011. The IB attack is a variant of the impossible differential (ID) attack by incorporating the idea of the boomerang attack. In this paper, we revisit the IB attack, and intr...