Time-Memory-Key tradeoff attacks?

[Perry E. Metzger]

The following has appeared in the IACR preprint archive. I would
appreciate comments. The author certainly has reasonable credentials,
but the document is low on detail:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/207

  Some Thoughts on Time-Memory-Data Tradeoffs

  Author: Alex Biryukov

  Abstract: In this paper we show that Time-Memory tradeoff by Hellman
  may be extended to Time-Memory-Key tradeoff thus allowing attacks much
  faster than exhaustive search for ciphers for which typically it is
  stated that no such attack exists. For example, as a result AES with
  128-bit key has only 85-bit security if $2^{43}$ encryptions of an
  arbitrary fixed text under different keys are available to the
  attacker. Such attacks are generic and are more practical than some
  recent high complexity chosen related-key attacks on round-reduced
  versions of AES. They constitute a practical threat for any cipher
  with 80-bit or shorter keys and are marginally practical for 128-bit
  key ciphers. We also show that UNIX password scheme even with
  carefully generated passwords is vulnerable to practical tradeoff
  attacks. Finally we also demonstrate a combination of rainbow tables
  with the time-memory-data tradeoff which results in a new tradeoff
  curve.

By the way, much thanks to Eric Rescorla for pointing this out to me.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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