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Recent work by Biryukov andWagner on developing the slide attack technique has revealed it to be a powerful tool in the analysis of block cipher designs. In this paper the technique is used to analyze a particular construction of balanced Feistel block cipher that features identically keyed round functions but with independent pre- and post- whitening keys. It is shown that for an n-bit block size this class of cipher can be broken using n2n=2+1 chosen plaintexts in O(n2 n/2) time and space, and that this is irrespective of both the size of the key and the number of rounds of the algorithm. Comparisons are then drawn against the DESX and Even-Mansour constructions.
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Onions, P. (2001). On the Strength of Simply-Iterated Feistel Ciphers with Whitening Keys. In: Naccache, D. (eds) Topics in Cryptology — CT-RSA 2001. CT-RSA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45353-9_6
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