A Statistical Attack on RC6

  • Authors:
  • Henri Gilbert;Helena Handschuh;Antoine Joux;Serge Vaudenay

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FSE '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper details the attack on RC6 which was announced in a report published in the proceedings of the second AES candidate conference (March 1999). Based on an observation on the RC6 statistics, we show how to distinguish RC6 from a random permutation and to recover the secret extended key for a fair number of rounds.