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The one attack that can always be mounted against any block cipher is a search for the key. No amount of clever design can prevent this attack and the designers’ aim is to ensure that this is the best attack available to the adversary.
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Knudsen, L.R., Robshaw, M.J.B. (2011). Brute Force Attacks. In: The Block Cipher Companion. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17342-4_5
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