Given the precedent that has been established for removing the SPECK
cipher from the kernel, I wonder if we should be removing Streebog on
the same basis, in light of the following work:
https://who.paris.inria.fr/Leo.Perrin/pi.html
https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/7405
Regards,
- Ted
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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Cryptography] New Results on the Russian S-box
Hello everyone,
I have recently sent an e-mail to the CFRG mailing list about my results
on the S-box shared by both of the latest Russian standards in symmetric
crypto and I have been told that it might interest the subscribers of
this mailing list.
In a paper that I am about to present at the Fast Software Encryption
conference, I describe what I claim to be the structure used by the
S-box of the hash function Streebog and the block cipher Kuznyechik.
Their authors never disclosed their design process---and in fact claimed
that it was generated randomly. I established that it is not the case.
More worryingly, the structure they used has a very strong algebraic
structure which, in my opinion, demands a renewed security analysis in
its light. Overall, I would not recommend using these algorithms until
their designers have provided satisfactory explanations about their
S-box choice.
