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Cryptanalysis of the MEM Mode of Operation

Authors:
Peng Wang
Dengguo Feng
Wenling Wu
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/094
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Abstract: The MEM mode is a nonce-based enciphering mode of operation proposed by Chakraborty and Sarkar, which was claimed to be secure against symmetric nonce respecting adversaries. We show that this is not correct by using two very simple attcks. One attack need one decryption and one decryption queries, and the other only need one encryption query.
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@misc{eprint-2006-21587,
  title={Cryptanalysis of the MEM Mode of Operation},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography /},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/094},
  note={ wp@is.ac.cn 13216 received 9 Mar 2006},
  author={Peng Wang and Dengguo Feng and Wenling Wu},
  year=2006
}