Slide attack is generic attack designed by Biryukov and Wagner [1, 2]. It can be applied in both known plaintext or chosen plaintext scenarios. It can be viewed as a variant of a related key attack, in which a relation of the key with itself is exploited. The main feature of this attack is that it realizes a dream of cryptanalysts: if the cipher is vulnerable to such an attack, the complexity of the attack is independent of the number of rounds of the ciphel. A typical slide of one encryption against another by one round (under the same key) is shown in Figure 1. If the equation \(F_1 (P_0, K_1) = P_1\) holds, the pair is called a slid pair. The attacker would then obtain two equations:
where the second equation would hold for free due to sliding. These equations involve only a single round function, and thus could be solved by the attacker for the secret subkeys \(K_1, K_r\) of these rounds. The attacker may create properly slid...
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Biryukov, A. (2005). Slide Attack. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23483-7_402
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