Cryptanalysis of XXTEA

Elias Yarrkov

Paper 2010/254 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2010/254 ↗

Cryptanalysis of XXTEA

Elias Yarrkov

Abstract

XXTEA, or Corrected Block TEA, is a simple block cipher in Roger Needham and David Wheeler's TEA series of algorithms. We describe a chosen plaintext attack for XXTEA using about $2^{59}$ queries and negligible work.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2010-05-04: last updated; 2010-05-04: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2010/254
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/254,
      author = {Elias Yarrkov},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of XXTEA},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/254},
      year = {2010},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/254}
}