Search space reduction of asynchrony immune cellular automata
Luca Mariot (TU Delft - Cyber Security)
Luca Manzoni (University of Trieste)
Alberto Dennunzio (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
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Abstract
We continue the study of asynchrony immunity in cellular automata (CA), which can be considered as a generalization of correlation immunity in the case of vectorial Boolean functions. The property could have applications as a countermeasure for side-channel attacks in CA-based cryptographic primitives, such as S-boxes and pseudorandom number generators. We first give some theoretical results on the properties that a CA rule must satisfy in order to meet asynchrony immunity, like central permutivity. Next, we perform an exhaustive search of all asynchrony immune CA rules of neighborhood size up to 5, leveraging on the discovered theoretical properties to greatly reduce the size of the search space.
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