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 …

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

Abstract The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a 128-bit block cipher with a user key
of 128, 192 or 256 bits, released by NIST in 2001 as the next-generation data encryption …

Impossible differential attacks are among the most powerful forms of cryptanalysis against
block ciphers. We present in this paper an in-depth complexity analysis of these attacks. We …

In this paper, we analyze the security of two recently proposed ultra-lightweight block
ciphers, SLIM and LCB. SLIM is designed based on the Feistel paradigm, operating on 32 …

Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block and
stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. The discovery of differential cryptanalysis …

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 …

The mere number of various apparently different statistical attacks on block ciphers has
raised the question about their relationships which would allow to classify them and …

Impossible differential cryptanalysis has shown to be a very powerful form of cryptanalysis
against block ciphers. These attacks, even if extensively used, remain not fully understood …

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 …