Linear cryptanalysis method for DES cipher
EUROCRYPT '93 Workshop on the theory and application of cryptographic techniques on Advances in cryptology
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
The Design of Rijndael
Slide Attacks with a Known-Plaintext Cryptanalysis
ICISC '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference Seoul on Information Security and Cryptology
FSE '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
The Interpolation Attack on Block Ciphers
FSE '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
FSE '02 Revised Papers from the 9th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
The Saturation Attack - A Bait for Twofish
FSE '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
EUROCRYPT'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
Sliding properties of the DES key schedule and potential extensions to the slide attacks
ICISC'02 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information security and cryptology
Related-Key boomerang and rectangle attacks
EUROCRYPT'05 Proceedings of the 24th annual international conference on Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques
A taxonomy of security attacks on the advanced encryption standard
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
A Comparative Survey on Cryptology-Based Methodologies
International Journal of Information Security and Privacy
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Block ciphers provide confidentiality by encrypting confidential messages into unintelligible form, which are irreversible without knowledge of the secret key used. During the design of a block cipher, its security against cryptanalysis must be considered. History has shown that a cipher designed without an adequate treatment of this will often lead to flaws and attacks by other researchers, sometimes devastatingly so. The problem for an aspiring cipher designer is that there are no standard texts on block cipher cryptanalysis because it is a fast changing field. The commonly available references are academic journals and conference proceedings, which may not be easy to grasp for researchers new to cryptanalysis. This paper presents the Xi framework, which is designed to compactly describe the block cipher cryptanalysis techniques regardless of their individual differences. This provides the cryptanalyst with a general framework to describe attacks on block ciphers, with the additional capabilities of allowing specification of the technical details of each different type of attack and of comparison of their respective strengths. Comparing different distinguishers in this framework also allows us to see natural generalizations and trigger nice open problems. We then show how to apply this Xi framework to the description of various attacks on popular and recent block ciphers.