• DocumentCode
    795009
  • Title

    Searching for the best linear approximation of DES-like cryptosystems

  • Author

    Buttyan, L. ; Vajda, I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Commun., Tech. Univ. Budapest, Hungary
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    5/25/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    873
  • Lastpage
    874
  • Abstract
    The authors show that the problem of searching for the best characteristic in linear cryptanalysis is equivalent to searching for the maximal weight path in a directed graph. Under certain restrictions, the best characteristic can be easily obtained even on a personal computer
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; cryptography; decoding; directed graphs; DES-like cryptosystems; best characteristic search; directed graph; linear approximation; linear cryptanalysis; maximal weight path;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950590
  • Filename
    390934