We introduce commutative diagram cryptanalysis, a framework for expressing certain kinds of attacks on product ciphers. We show that many familiar attacks, including linear cryptanalysis, differential cryptanalysis, differential-linear cryptanalysis, mod n attacks, truncated differential cryptanalysis, impossible differential cryptanalysis, higherorder differential cryptanalysis, and interpolat...

We analyze the χ cryptanalysis, one of the most successful cryptanalysis technique against the RC6 algorithm. We apply this type of cryptanalysis as distinction cryptanalysis as well as key-recovery cryptanalysis. We present a modified version of RC6 by introducing a very simple data-dependent swapping function in its structure. The conclusions inferred by statistical experiments is that this m...

Linear cryptanalysis has been proven to be a powerful attack that can be applied to a number of symmetric block ciphers. However, conventional linear cryptanalysis is ineffective in attacking ciphers that use key-dependent operations, such as ICE, Lucifer and SAFER. In this paper conditional linear cryptanalysis, which uses characteristics that depend on some key-bit values, is introduced. This...

OBJECTIVE Integration of patients' records across resources enhances analytics. To address privacy concerns, emerging strategies such as Bloom filter encodings (BFEs), enable integration while obscuring identifiers. However, recent investigations demonstrate BFEs are, in theory, vulnerable to cryptanalysis when encoded identifiers are randomly selected from a public resource. This study investi...

1 Evaluation of security 1.1. Differential cryptanalysis In extending differential cryptanalysis, Aoki , Kobayashi, and Moriai [1] greatly reduced the computational amount needed [2]. They determined that differential cryptanalysis could not be applied to FEAL with more than 32 rounds. Biham et al. [3] proposed a new cyptanalysis of Skipjack [4] using impossible differentials. Although regular ...

In this paper, we revisit the famous Davies-Murphy cryptanalysis of DES. First we improve its complexity down to the analysis of 2 chosen plaintexts, by considering 6 distributions instead of 7. The previous improvement of the attack by Biham and Biryukov costed 2 known plaintexts. This new result is better than differential cryptanalysis but slightly worse than linear cryptanalysis. Secondly, ...

This paper describes an effort to attack S-DES using differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. S-DES is a reduced version of the Data Encryption Standard (DES). It also includes a discussion on the subject of cryptology and a literature survey of useful papers regarding cryptography and cryptanalysis. This paper is meant as a tutorial on the fundamentals of differential cryptanalysis...

block ciphers have wide applications for hardware and software implementations. in this paper, a new block cipher algorithm with provable security is proposed. the whole structure of the algorithm is novel and has a good encryption and decryption performance. additionally, it has good security with few number of rounds. the structure of the proposed algorithm consists of 4-rounds feistel-like w...

Impossible differential cryptanalysis, the extension of differential cryptanalysis, is one of the most efficient attacks against block ciphers. This cryptanalysis method has been applied to most of the block ciphers and has shown significant results. Using structures, key schedule considerations, early abort, and pre-computation are some common methods to reduce complexities of this attack. In ...