Linear cryptanalysis, along with differential cryptanalysis, is an important tool to evaluate the security of block ciphers. This work introduces a novel extension of linear crypt...
Abstract. This paper reports on the improved and multiple linear cryptanalysis of reduced round Serpent by mean of a branch-and-bound characteristic search within the algorithm. We...
Abstract. Several generalizations of linear cryptanalysis have been proposed in the past, as well as very similar attacks in a statistical point of view. In this paper, we define ...
Most last-round attacks on iterated block ciphers provide some design criteria for the round function. Here, we focus on the links between the underlying properties. Most notably, ...
Abstract Many attacks on encryption schemes rely on statistical considerations using plaintext/ciphertext pairs to find some information on the key. We provide here simple formula...