Block Cipher Cryptanalysis

    * The Block Cipher Lounge <http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/bc.html> (by
      Lars Knudsen)[Cool]
    * @Differential Cryptanalysis
      <http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~helger/crypto/link/block/dc.html>
    * Tutorials
          o Self-Study Course in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis
            <http://www.counterpane.com/self-study.html> (Bruce Schneier)
          o A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis
            <http://www.engr.mun.ca/~howard/PAPERS/ldc_tutorial.ps>
      (Howard Heys)
    * Linear Cryptanalysis
          o Linear Cryptanalysis: A Literature Survey
            <http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/RES/LINANA.HTM> (Terry Ritter)
          o Papers
                + On Matsui's Linear Cryptanalysis
                  <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/biham94matsuis.html> (Eli
                  Biham, Eurocrypt '94)
                + Links between differential and linear cryptanalysis
                  <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/chabaud94links.html>
                  (Florent Chabaud, Serge Vaudenay, 1994)
                + A Generalization of Linear Cryptanalysis and the
                  Applicability of Matsui's Piling-up Lemma
                  <http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/~harpes/GLClong.ps> (Carlo
                  Harpes, Gerhard G. Kramer, and James L. Massey,
                  Eurocrypt '95)
                + Non-linear approximations in linear cryptanalysis
                  <ftp://ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/COSIC/knudsen/nonlinear.ps.Z>
                  (L.R. Knudsen and M. Robshaw)
                + Linear Cryptanalysis of RC5 and RC6
                  <http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~borst/RC6.html> (J.
            Borst, B. Preneel, J. Vandewalle, FSE '99)
          o Linear Cryptanalysis of DES
            <http://crypto.junod.info/lincrypt.ps> (Pascal Junod,
      Diploma Thesis)
    * Interpolation cryptanalysis
          o The interpolation attack on block ciphers
            <ftp://ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/COSIC/knudsen/interpol.ps.Z>
      (T. Jakobsen, L.R. Knudsen)
    * Partitioning cryptanalysis
          o Partitioning Cryptanalysis
      <http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/~harpes/pc.ps> (Carlo Harpes, 1995)
    * Brute force: using molecular computers
          o On Applying Molecular Computation to the Data Encryption
            Standard <http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pwkr/papers.html> (Leonard
            M. Adleman, Paul W.K. Rothemund, Sam Roweis, Erik Winfree,
      8/96)
    * Saturation attack [[citeseer]
      <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?submit=Documents&q=Saturation attack>]
          o The Saturation Attack - a Bait for Twofish
            <http://eprint.iacr.org/2000/046/> (Stefan Lucks, eprint
      2000/046)
    * Rijndael cryptanalysis
          o Attacking Seven Rounds of Rijndael under 192-bit and 256-bit
            Keys
            <http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/m/lucks/papers.html>
            (Stefan Lucks)
          o New Observations <http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/~sean/> (Sean
            Murphy)
                + New Observations on Rijndael
                  <http://www.isg.rhbnc.ac.uk/mrobshaw/> (Murphy,
                  Robshaw, 07.08.00)
                + Answer to New Observations on Rijndael
                  <http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/answer.pdf>
                  (Daemen, Rijmen, 11.08.00)
                + Further Comments on the Structure of Rijndael
                  <http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/~sean/Respondse.pdf>
            (Murphy, Robshaw, 17.08.00)
          o Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael
            <http://www.counterpane.com/rijndael.html> (N. Ferguson, J.
            Kelsey, S. Lucks, B. Schneier, M. Stay, D. Wagner, and D.
            Whiting, FSE 2000)
          o A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael
            <http://www.macfergus.com/niels/pubs/rdalgeq.html> (Niels
            Ferguson, Richard Schroeppel and Doug Whiting, 2001)
          o Security Assessment of Hierocrypt and Rijndael against the
            Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis
            <http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/070/> (Kenji Ohkuma and Hideo
            Shimizu and Fumihiko Sano and Shinichi Kawamura, eprint
            2001/070)
          o XSL Attacks [[citeseer]
            <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?submit=Documents&q=XSL Attacks>]
                + Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers using Overdefined
                  Systems of Equations
                  <http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/044/> (Nicolas Courtois
                  and Josef Pieprzyk, eprint 2002/044 (Asiacrypt 2002))
                + Algebraic attacks on Rijndael
                  <http://www.minrank.org/aes/> (Page by Courtois)
                + Impact of Courtois and Pieprzyk results
                  <http://aes.nist.gov/aes/FMPro?-token=S021&-DB=discufm.fp3&-lay=detail&-Format=Detail.htm&SubIDMatch=S021&-op=cn&ActiveMessages=x&-Skip=1&-Max=1&-sortfield=ThreadID&-sortorder=descending&-sortfield=MessageID&-sortorder=ascending&-LOP=and&-Find>
            (Comment by Don Coppersmith)

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