Paper 2022/1475 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2022/1475 ↗
Quagmire ciphers and group theory: Recovering keywords from the key table
Abstract
We demonstrate that with some ideas from group theory we are very often able to recover the keywords for a quagmire cipher from its key table. This would be the last task for a cryptologist in analyzing such a cipher.
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- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Attacks and cryptanalysis
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2022-11-25: last updated
- 2022-10-27: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/1475
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1475,
author = {Thomas Kaeding},
title = {Quagmire ciphers and group theory: Recovering keywords from the key table},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1475},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1475}
}