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This paper presents a dedicated known-plaintext attack on up to four rounds of the IDEA cipher, that trades-off a small number of known data blocks (114) for a larger time complexity (2114). This attack is also applied to up to 2.5-round MESH block ciphers, but are not more effective than previously known attacks. An advantage of this attack compared to previous known-plaintext attacks on IDEA/MESH is that no assumptions on the key value are required. Chosen-plaintext and chosen-plaintext-adaptively-chosen-ciphertext attacks can reach the full 8.5-round IDEA, and up to 5.5-round MESH ciphers, but always under weak-key assumptions.
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Nakahara, J., Preneel, B., Vandewalle, J. (2004). The Biryukov-Demirci Attack on Reduced-Round Versions of IDEA and MESH Ciphers. In: Wang, H., Pieprzyk, J., Varadharajan, V. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27800-9_9
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