Research Article

Improved Single-Key Attacks on 2-GOST

Table 1

Summary of attacks on 2-GOST under single-key setting.

Attack typeRoundsDataTimeMemory (bytes)No. of keysSource

Reflection32[6]
Impossible reflection32[6]
Impossible reflection32[6]
Fixed point32All[6]
2-D MITM32AllSection 4
MITM318AllSection 5

(i) The unit of time complexity is one full-round encryption; (ii) 2D MITM: 2-dimensional meet-in-the-middle attack; (iii) CP: chosen plaintext; KP: known plaintext.