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RC6 has been submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Two important features of RC6 that were absent from its predecessor RC5 are a quadratic function and a fixed rotation. By examining simplified variants that omit these features we clarify their essential contribution to the overall security of RC6.
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Contini, S., Rivest, R.L., Robshaw, M.J.B., Yin, Y.L. (1999). Improved Analysis of Some Simplified Variants of RC6. In: Knudsen, L. (eds) Fast Software Encryption. FSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48519-8_1
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