An AES-Like Cipher and Its White-Box Implementation

White-box cryptography aims at implementing a cipher to protect its key from being extracted in an untrusted environment, where the attacker has full access to the execution of the cryptographic software. In 2002, Chow proposed the original white-box implementation of AES. Afterwards, various white-box implementations were presented. However, they were all badly broken because of a weakness of the implemented cryptographic algorithms: every parameter of the cryptographic operations is fixed except the round keys. In this paper, we present an AES-like cipher based on key-dependent S-boxes. The new cipher is designed to meet the design criteria of AES and hence provides a security level comparable to AES to resist black-box attacks. Moreover, we present a white-box implementation for our AES-like cipher, which is sufficient to withstand existing white-box attacks.