Senate Square: Decembrists Against Decembrists

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Square Attack against Reduced Variants of Rijndael

1 INTRODUCTION The cipher Rijndael is one of the finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard selection process. The only described attack on this cipher is the Square attack which was already described by the designers and which is applicable to Rijndael reduced to 4, 5, and 6 rounds. Rijndael is a block cipher. The length of the block and the length of the key can be specified to be 128, 192...

Improved SQUARE Attacks against Reduced-Round HIEROCRYPT

We present improved Square attacks against the NESSIE and ECTP candidate block ciphers Hierocrypt-3 and Hierocrypt-L1, designed by Toshiba. We improve over the previous best known attack on five S-box layers of Hierocrypt-3 by a factor of 2 computational steps with an attack on six layers for 128-bit keys, and extend it to seven S-box layers for longer keys. For Hierocrypt-L1 we are able to imp...

Australia ’ s Senate and Senate Reform in Canada Professor Howard

When Canada’s current political system was established in 1867, the Fathers of Confederation took pains to make Canada’s federal government conform as closely as possible to British practiceand to diverge as sharply as possible from the supposedly failed political system of the United States. As Britain was a unitary state and Canada was a federation like the United States, this proved a formi...