T-functions were introduced by Klimov and Shamir in a series of papers during the last few years. They are of great interest for cryptography as they may provide some new building ...
Abstract. Statistical Saturation Attacks have been introduced and applied to the block cipher PRESENT at CT-RSA 2009. In this paper, we consider their natural extensions. First, we...
Abstract. XL was first introduced to solve determined or overdetermined systems of equations over a finite field as an “algebraic attack” against multivariate cryptosystems....
In spite of growing importance of AES, the Data Encryption Standard is by no means obsolete. DES has never been broken from the practical point of view. The triple DES is believed ...
In this paper we study the long standing problem of information extraction from multiple linear approximations. We develop a formal statistical framework for block cipher attacks b...