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Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20

Authors:
Paul Crowley
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375
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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.
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@misc{eprint-2005-12709,
  title={Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / cryptanalysis, truncated differential cryptanalysis, salsa20},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/375},
  note={ paul@ciphergoth.org 13074 received 18 Oct 2005},
  author={Paul Crowley},
  year=2005
}