Automatic Demirci–Selçuk Meet-In-The-Middle Attack on SIMON

Demirci-Selcuk meet-in-the-middle (DS-MITM) attack is an effective method for cryptanalysis. As far as we know, the published automatic results of DS-MITM attack are all for byte-oriented ciphers. In this article, we first propose the automatic analysis method of DS-MITM attack for bit-oriented ciphers based on constraint programming, which is integrated with key-bridging technique. Based on the automatic modeling method, we propose the first result of DS-MITM attack on SIMON, which is a family of lightweight block ciphers proposed by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013.