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On Bruteforce-Like Cryptanalysis: New Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks in Symmetric Cryptanalysis

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This extended abstract briefly summarizes a talk with the same title and gives literature pointers. In particular, we coin the term bruteforce-like cryptanalysis.

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Rechberger, C. (2013). On Bruteforce-Like Cryptanalysis: New Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks in Symmetric Cryptanalysis. In: Kwon, T., Lee, MK., Kwon, D. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2012. ICISC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37682-5_3

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