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A Related-Key Attack on Block Ciphers with Weak Recurrent Key Schedules

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Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2011)

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An important component of an iterated block cipher is the key schedule. In this paper, we consider iterated block ciphers with a key schedule algorithm described by a recurrence relation. We present an efficient related-key attack on those ciphers. With regard to similar techniques, such as the slide attack, our proposal considerably reduces the number of necessary plaintexts from O(2n/4) plaintexts to 2r, where r is the number of recovered round keys. The complexity of our attack is, moreover, almost equal to the complexity of guessing just one round key.

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Pudovkina, M. (2012). A Related-Key Attack on Block Ciphers with Weak Recurrent Key Schedules. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Lafourcade, P. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27901-0_8

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