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I am trying to learn cryptanalysis on the Keccak hash function. One of the papers on zero sum distinguishers talks about Keccak having inverse degree of 3.

I am unable to figure this out: how do you get an inverse degree of 3? For example one of the permutations Chi in Keccak does the multiplication in GF(2). So I would guess that means the image transformation for Keccak has degree 2, but am unable to figure out how they derive degree 3 for preimage or inverse or going backwards.

If someone can point me to a resource, that would be of great help, since I am unable to find one.

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Trying to express the inverse of the non-linear Chi fonction of Keccak as a multivariate polynomial of the bits of the state will yield a degree 3 polynomial.

How to derive such inverse is explained in section 6.6.2 of Joan Daemen PhD thesis as stated page 15 of http://keccak.noekeon.org/Keccak-reference-3.0.pdf

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Alexandre, for pointing that out. I should read the documents more carefully. And apologies for late reply. $\endgroup$
    – Soham
    Jun 29, 2013 at 14:08

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