Cryptanalysis of the Bluetooth E0 cipher using OBDD's

Yaniv Shaked; Avishai Wool

doi:10.1007/11836810_14

Cryptanalysis of the Bluetooth E₀ cipher using OBDD's

Yaniv Shaked^*, Avishai Wool

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Electrical Engineering

Tel Aviv University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

15 Scopus citations

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the E₀ cipher, which is the cipher used in the Bluetooth specifications. We adapted and optimized the Binary Decision Diagram attack of Krause, for the specific details of E₀. Our method requires 128 known bits of the keystream in order to recover the initial value of the four LFSR's in the E₀ system. We describe, several variants which we built to lower the complexity of the attack. We evaluated our attack against the real (non-reduced) E₀ cipher. Our best attack can recover the initial value of the four LFSR's, for the first time, with a realistic space complexity of 2²³ (84MB RAM), and with a time complexity of 2⁸⁷. This attack can be massively parallelized to lower the overall time complexity. Beyond the specifics of E₀, our work describes practical experience with BDD-based cryptanalysis, which so far has mostly been a theoretical concept.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Security - 9th International Conference, ISC 2006, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	187-202
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	3540383417, 9783540383413
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11836810_14
State	Published - 2006
Event	9th International Information Security Conference, ISC 2006 - Samos Island, Greece Duration: 30 Aug 2006 → 2 Sep 2006

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4176 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	9th International Information Security Conference, ISC 2006
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Samos Island
Period	30/08/06 → 2/09/06

Keywords

BDD
Bluetooth
Cryptanalysis
Stream cipher

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Shaked, Y., & Wool, A. (2006). Cryptanalysis of the Bluetooth E₀ cipher using OBDD's. In Information Security - 9th International Conference, ISC 2006, Proceedings (pp. 187-202). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4176 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11836810_14

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Shaked, Y & Wool, A 2006, Cryptanalysis of the Bluetooth E₀ cipher using OBDD's. in Information Security - 9th International Conference, ISC 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4176 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 187-202, 9th International Information Security Conference, ISC 2006, Samos Island, Greece, 30/08/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/11836810_14

Cryptanalysis of the Bluetooth E₀ cipher using OBDD's. / Shaked, Yaniv; Wool, Avishai.
Information Security - 9th International Conference, ISC 2006, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2006. p. 187-202 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4176 LNCS).

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