Paper 2005/033
An Attack on CFB Mode Encryption As Used By OpenPGP
Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato
Abstract
This paper describes an adaptive-chosen-ciphertext attack on the Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode of encryption as used in OpenPGP. In most circumstances it will allow an attacker to determine 16 bits of any block of plaintext with about
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- applicationscryptanalysis
- Contact author(s)
- robert zuccherato @ entrust com
- History
- 2005-02-10: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2005/033
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/033, author = {Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato}, title = {An Attack on {CFB} Mode Encryption As Used By {OpenPGP}}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/033}, year = {2005}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/033} }