In this paper we give a short overview of the state of the art of secret key block ciphers. We
focus on the main application of block ciphers, namely for encryption. The most important …

This report summarizes readings in the area of the cryptanalysis of block ciphers.
Historically, the academic field started in 1981 with the first CRYPTO conference and …

Since the introduction of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the mid-1970s, block
ciphers have played an ever-increasing role in cryptology. Because of the growing number …

This paper introduces a new methodology for cryptanalysis of block ciphers. The principle is
based on a new measure of linearity and e ectively applicable to Data Encryption Standard …

This book is a survey on the state of the art in block cipher design and analysis. It is work in
progress, and it has been for the good part of the last three years--sadly, for various reasons …

Differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis are the most widely used techniques for
block ciphers cryptanalysis. Several attacks combine these cryptanalytic techniques to …

Block ciphers encrypt blocks of plaintext, messages, into blocks of ciphertext under the
action of a secret key, and the process of encryption is reversed by decryption which uses …

The results of this paper give the theoretical fundaments on which Matsui's linear
cryptanalysis of the DES is based. As a result we obtain precise information on the …

The block cipher is one of the most important primitives in modern cryptography, information
and network security; one of the primary purposes of such ciphers is to provide …

Linear cryptanalysis and differential cryptanalysis are the most important methods of attack
against block ciphers. Their efficiency have been demonstrated against several ciphers …