Paper 2005/375 Original: eprint.iacr.org/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.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2005-10-23: last updated
2005-10-23: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/375
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375}
}
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