Block Cipher Cryptanalysis

• The Block Cipher Lounge (by Lars Knudsen)
• @Differential Cryptanalysis
• Tutorials
  • Self-Study Course in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis (Bruce Schneier)
  • A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis (Howard Heys)
• Linear Cryptanalysis
  • Linear Cryptanalysis: A Literature Survey (Terry Ritter)
  • Papers
    • On Matsui's Linear Cryptanalysis (Eli Biham, Eurocrypt '94)
    • Links between differential and linear cryptanalysis (Florent Chabaud, Serge Vaudenay, 1994)
    • A Generalization of Linear Cryptanalysis and the Applicability of Matsui's Piling-up Lemma (Carlo Harpes, Gerhard G. Kramer, and James L. Massey, Eurocrypt '95)
    • Non-linear approximations in linear cryptanalysis (L.R. Knudsen and M. Robshaw)
    • Linear Cryptanalysis of RC5 and RC6 (J. Borst, B. Preneel, J. Vandewalle, FSE '99)
  • Linear Cryptanalysis of DES (Pascal Junod, Diploma Thesis)
  • On the Differential and Linear Properties of Addition (Johan Wallén (MSc thesis, HUT 2004))
• Interpolation cryptanalysis
  • The interpolation attack on block ciphers (T. Jakobsen, L.R. Knudsen)
• Partitioning cryptanalysis
  • Partitioning Cryptanalysis (Carlo Harpes, 1995)
• Brute force: using molecular computers
  • On Applying Molecular Computation to the Data Encryption Standard (Leonard M. Adleman, Paul W.K. Rothemund, Sam Roweis, Erik Winfree, 8/96)
• Saturation attack []
  • The Saturation Attack - a Bait for Twofish (Stefan Lucks, eprint 2000/046)
• Rijndael cryptanalysis
  • Attacking Seven Rounds of Rijndael under 192-bit and 256-bit Keys (Stefan Lucks)
  • New Observations (Sean Murphy)
    • New Observations on Rijndael (Murphy, Robshaw, 07.08.00)
    • Answer to New Observations on Rijndael (Daemen, Rijmen, 11.08.00)
    • Further Comments on the Structure of Rijndael (Murphy, Robshaw, 17.08.00)
  • Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael (N. Ferguson, J. Kelsey, S. Lucks, B. Schneier, M. Stay, D. Wagner, and D. Whiting, FSE 2000)
  • A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael (Niels Ferguson, Richard Schroeppel and Doug Whiting, 2001)
  • Security Assessment of Hierocrypt and Rijndael against the Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis (Kenji Ohkuma and Hideo Shimizu and Fumihiko Sano and Shinichi Kawamura, eprint 2001/070)
  • XSL Attacks []
    • Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers using Overdefined Systems of Equations (Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, eprint 2002/044 (Asiacrypt 2002))
    • Algebraic attacks on Rijndael (Page by Courtois)
    • Impact of Courtois and Pieprzyk results (Comment by Don Coppersmith)
• Theses
  • Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions, MAC Algorithms and Block Ciphers (Bart Van Rompay, Leuven, PhD thesis, 2004)
  • Statistical Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers (Pascal Junod, EPFL, PhD thesis, 2005)
  • Techniques for Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers (Orr Dunkelman, Technion, PhD thesis 2006)
  • Cryptanalysis of Ciphers and Protocols (Elad Pinhas Barkan, Technion, PhD thesis, 2006)

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