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EUROCRYPT
2001
Springer

Structural Cryptanalysis of SASAS

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Structural Cryptanalysis of SASAS
In this paper we consider the security of block ciphers which contain alternate layers of invertible S-boxes and affine mappings (there are many popular cryptosystems which use this structure, including the winner of the AES competition, Rijndael). We show that a five layer scheme with 128 bit plaintexts and 8 bit S-boxes is surprisingly weak even when all the S-boxes and affine mappings are key dependent (and thus completely unknown to the attacker). We tested the attack with an actual implementation, which required just 216 chosen plaintexts and a few seconds on a single PC to find the 217 bits of information in all the unknown elements of the scheme.
Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where EUROCRYPT
Authors Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir
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