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Paper 2006/217

Statistical Analysis of the MARS Block Cipher

Andrey Pestunov

Abstract

The work contains a statistical investigation of the MARS block cipher --- one of the AES finalists. It is shown that 8 MARS round ciphertext can be recognized from a uniform distribution with the help of the ``Book Stack"\, test providing that $2^{18}$ blocks of plaintexts and $2^{20}$ bytes of memory are avaliable. The previous published attacks on this cipher were only theoretical with unrealistic resource requirements.

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Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
block cipherscryptanalysisAES
Contact author(s)
an24 @ gorodok net
History
2006-06-29: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/217
License
Creative Commons Attribution
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