Abstract

The FX construction provides a way to increase the effective key length of a block cipher E. We prove security of a tweakable version of the FX construction in the post-quantum setting, i.e., against a quantum attacker given only classical access to the secretly keyed construction while retaining quantum access to E, a setting that seems to be the most relevant one for real-world applications. We then use our results to prove post-quantum security—in the same model—of the (plain) FX construction, Elephant (a finalist of NIST&⋕39;s lightweight cryptography standardization effort), and Chaskey (an ISO-standardized lightweight MAC

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2022
URL
https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1097
Journal
Cryptology ePrint Archive
Contributors
Groups
Date Published
08/2022