[Resource Topic] 2006/217: Statistical Analysis of the MARS Block Cipher

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Title:
Statistical Analysis of the MARS Block Cipher

Authors: Andrey Pestunov

Abstract:

The work contains a statistical investigation of the MARS block cipher — one of the AES finalists. It is shown that 8 MARS round ciphertext can be recognized from a uniform distribution with the help of the ``Book Stack", test providing that 2^{18} blocks of plaintexts and 2^{20} bytes of memory are avaliable. The previous published attacks on this cipher were only theoretical with unrealistic resource requirements.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/217

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