1994-02-01 - Re: Linear Cryptanalysis of DES - New Developments by Matsui

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From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 20:00:28 PST

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From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 20:00:28 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Linear Cryptanalysis of DES - New Developments by Matsui
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> 
> On Jan. 27, at the Japanese Conference on Cryptography and Information 
> Security, Mitsuru Matsui of Mitsubish presented a known plaintext
> attack on the full 16-round DES.  It requires  2^43 plaintext-ciphertext
> pairs, and breaks the scheme in 50 days on 12 HP9735 workstations.
> 
> I have absolutely no more information at this point.  I will post again
> when I know something else.

I would _really_ like to see this paper. Does anyone have a preprint
or copy they'd be willing to share?

Mark

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