Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20

Paul Crowley

Paper 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.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: cryptanalysis truncated differential cryptanalysis salsa20
Contact author(s): paul @ ciphergoth org
History: 2005-10-23: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2005/375
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/375,
      author = {Paul Crowley},
      title = {Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/375},
      year = {2005},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375}
}