Cybersecurity (Jan 2025)

Cryptanalysis of IAR-CTR and IAR-CFB and a fixing method

  • Xueqi Zhu,
  • Fangzhou Liu,
  • Yan Jia,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Peng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42400-024-00312-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract We present practical attacks on IAR-CTR and IAR-CFB, AE modes proposed by Hwang and Gope to offer both privacy and authenticity in a single pass. Then we use the idea of iCOFB, which is originally defined with a tweakable random function, to fix the IAR-CTR mode using the tweakable block cipher, and propose the TIAR-CTR mode, which is a one-pass AEAD mode with provable security. However, the same fixed method does not work for the IAR-CFB mode.

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