Paper 2005/375

Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20

Paul Crowley

Abstract

We present an attack on Salsa20 reduced to five of its twenty rounds. This attack uses many clusters of truncated differentials and requires 2^{165} work and 2^{6} plaintexts.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
cryptanalysistruncated differential cryptanalysissalsa20
Contact author(s)
paul @ ciphergoth org
History
2005-10-23: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/375
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/375,
      author = {Paul Crowley},
      title = {Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/375},
      year = {2005},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375}
}
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