## CryptoDB

### Paper: Spectral analysis of ZUC-256

Authors: Jing Yang , Dept. of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Thomas Johansson , Dept. of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Alexander Maximov , Ericsson Research, Lund, Sweden DOI: 10.13154/tosc.v2020.i1.266-288 URL: https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8565 Search ePrint Search Google In this paper we develop a number of generic techniques and algorithms in spectral analysis of large linear approximations for use in cryptanalysis. We apply the developed tools for cryptanalysis of ZUC-256 and give a distinguishing attack with complexity around 2236. Although the attack is only 220 times faster than exhaustive key search, the result indicates that ZUC-256 does not provide a source with full 256-bit entropy in the generated keystream, which would be expected from a 256-bit key. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first known academic attack on full ZUC-256 with a computational complexity that is below exhaustive key search.
##### BibTeX
@article{tosc-2020-30274,
title={Spectral analysis of ZUC-256},
journal={IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology},
publisher={Ruhr-Universität Bochum},
volume={2020, Issue 1},
pages={266-288},
url={https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8565},
doi={10.13154/tosc.v2020.i1.266-288},
author={Jing Yang and Thomas Johansson and Alexander Maximov},
year=2020
}