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This paper shows that the actual proposal for an unbalanced Feistel network by Schneier and Blaze is as vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis as the DES.
N.F.W.O. research assistant, sponsored by the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium)
N.F.W.O. postdoctoral researcher, sponsored by the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium)
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- Block Cipher
- Differential Attack
- Data Encryption Standard
- Linear Cryptanalysis
- Differential Cryptanalysis
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Rijmen, V., Preneel, B. (1995). Cryptanalysis of McGuffin. In: Preneel, B. (eds) Fast Software Encryption. FSE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60590-8_27
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