Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2005/375
Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20
Paul Crowley
Abstract: We present an attack on Salsa20 reduced to five of its twenty rounds. This attack uses many clusters of truncated differentials and requires 2^{165} work and 2^{6} plaintexts.
Category / Keywords: secret-key cryptography / cryptanalysis, truncated differential cryptanalysis, salsa20
Date: received 18 Oct 2005
Contact author: paul at ciphergoth org
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Version: 20051023:204644 (All versions of this report)
Short URL: ia.cr/2005/375
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