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The block cipher RC2 was designed in 1989 by Ron Rivest for RSA Data Security Inc. In this paper we describe both the cipher and preliminary attempts to use both differential and linear cryptanalysis.
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Knudsen, L.R., Rijmen, V., Rivest, R.L., Robshaw, M.J.B. (1998). On the Design and Security of RC2. In: Vaudenay, S. (eds) Fast Software Encryption. FSE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69710-1_14
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