Zodiac算法新的不可能差分攻击

重新评估了Zodiac算法抵抗不可能差分攻击的能力。通过分析Zodiac算法的线性层,给出了Zodiac算法两条新的14轮不可能差分。利用新的不可能差分,结合Early-Abort技术对完整16轮的Zodiac算法进行了不可能差分攻击。攻击过程中一共恢复6个字节的密钥,其时间复杂度只有2_32.6次加密,数据复杂度约为2_85.6个明文,该攻击结果与已有最好的结果相比,时间复杂度降低了一个因子2₃₃。结果表明由于Zodiac算法线性层的扩散性差,使得该算法对不可能差分分析是不免疫的。     

Zodiac算法新的不可能差分攻击

#重新评估了Zodiac算法抵抗不可能差分攻击的能力。通过分析Zodiac算法的线性层,给出了Zodiac算法两条新的14轮不可能差分。利用新的不可能差分,结合Early-Abort技术对完整16轮的Zodiac算法进行了不可能差分攻击。攻击过程中一共恢复6个字节的密钥,其时间复杂度只有2_32.6次加密,数据复杂度约为2_85.6个明文,该攻击结果与已有最好的结果相比,时间复杂度降低了一个因子2₃₃。结果表明由于Zodiac算法线性层的扩散性差,使得该算法对不可能差分分析是不免疫的。     

一种PUFFIN类SPN型分组密码的积分攻击

PUFFIN是一个具有64bit分组长度、128bit密钥的SPN型分组密码,为评估其安全性,从比特的层面分析其平衡性,构造了PUFFIN的5轮积分区分器,并利用高阶积分的思想将5轮区分器扩展为6轮,然后对8轮PUFFIN密码进行攻击。8轮攻击的数据复杂度为221,时间复杂度为234,空间复杂度为220。结果表明,8轮PUFFIN密码对于给出的攻击是不免疫的。对于线性层为置换的PUFFIN类SPN型分组密码,证明了至少存在3轮积分区分器,并给出了寻找该区分器的方法。     

低轮PUFFIN算法的积分攻击

PUFFIN是一个分组长度为64bit的轻量级分组密码算法,其密钥长度为128bit。对PUFFIN抵抗积分攻击的能力进行研究,构造并证明PUFFIN算法存在5轮和6轮积分区分器。利用6轮积分区分器对8轮PUFFIN进行积分攻击,可恢复2轮共100bit轮密钥,攻击的数据复杂度为220个选择明文,时间复杂度约为233次8轮加密,存储复杂度为220,这是目前为止对PUFFIN最好的积分分析结果。     

八轮MISTY1算法的相关密钥扩大飞来去器攻击

密钥扩展算法对分组密码的安全至关重要,目前各种攻击方法越来越关注密钥带来的影响.通过分析非线性函数FI和密钥扩展算法,并观察轮子密钥的排列方式,寻找到MISTY1算法一个包含290个弱密钥的、可应用于相关密钥扩大飞来去器攻击的弱密钥类.在弱密钥类的基础上,寻找到两条相互独立的相关密钥差分路径,从而构造了一个七轮MISTY1算法的相关密钥扩大飞来去器区分器,进而实现了对八轮MISTY1算法(不带最后FL层)的相关密钥扩大飞来去器攻击.攻击需要263个选择明文,攻击的计算复杂度是270.该攻击是第一个对不带最后FL层MISTY1算法的八轮攻击,且与同类攻击方法相比,攻击算法放宽了所需要的相关密钥的限制条件.     

不可能差分分析时间复杂度通用计算公式的改进

研究Boura等和Derbez分别提出的不可能差分分析时间复杂度计算公式,根据实际攻击过程优化密钥排除的步骤,给出不可能差分分析实际攻击的时间复杂度计算的改进公式,进而利用两个分组密码算法模型将改进后公式计算的实际结果分别与Boura等的公式和Derbez的公式的计算结果进行对比,结果表明Boura等的公式计算结果既可能高于优化公式的实际分析计算的结果,也可能低于优化公式的实际分析计算的结果,而在轮子密钥独立时改进后公式的实际计算结果是Derbez公式的计算结果的2-1.2倍。     

对特殊类型Feistel密码的Square攻击

对轮函数为SP结构的两类特殊类型Feistel密码抗Square攻击的能力进行了研究。通过改变轮函数中P置换的位置从而给出了此类Feistel密码的等价结构,以SNAKE(2)和CLEFIA为例,给出了基于等价结构Square攻击的具体过程,将6轮SNAKE(2)的Square攻击的时间复杂度由224降为213.4;将6轮CLEFIA的Square攻击的时间复杂度由234.4降为212.4。结果表明,在设计轮函数为SP结构的Feistel密码时,必须充分考虑等价结构对算法抗Square攻击的影响。     

对Sosemanuk算法改进的猜测决定攻击

Sosemanuk算法是欧洲eSTREAM计划最终获选的七个算法之一。从比特层面对该算法进行剖析,通过对Serpent1组件S盒、模232加法和线性反馈移位寄存器的研究,找到了关于内部状态的一个方程组,并利用Groebner基方法改进了对Sosemanuk算法基于字的猜测决定攻击。结果表明只需要猜测7个32比特的字就可以完全确定出其余5个32比特的内部状态,其攻击的复杂度为O(2192)。     

ARIA分组密码差分功耗分析

分析了密码算法加密过程的功耗泄露模型,给出了差分功耗分析的基本原理,针对ARIA分组密码中查找S盒的功耗泄漏进行了差分功耗分析,并进行仿真实验。实验结果表明：ARIA密码中S盒查表操作功耗消耗易遭受差分功耗攻击,对800个随机明文的功耗曲线进行实验分析,可获取ARIA加密前4轮轮密钥,结合密钥扩展算法即可获取128位的主密钥。     

基于方差分析的RSA计时攻击

结合差分统计分析方法,引入方差分析假设检验,提出一种可行的计时攻击算法,并针对RSA算法的软件应用进行攻击实验。实验结果表明,该攻击算法不仅比传统攻击方式具有更高的可行性,而且能够适用于不同密钥长度的攻击。     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.